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houston cotton candy air plant Tillandsia 'Houston Cotton Candy'

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houston cotton candy air plant Tillandsia 'Houston Cotton Candy'Discover Tillandsia 'Houston Cotton Candy', a delightful variant of the popular 'Houston' hybrid that brings a touch of ethereal beauty to your airplant collection: Parentage: Tillandsia stricta Tillandsia recurvifolia Origin: A select form of the 'Houston' hybrid, originally created by renowned botanist Mark Dimmitt Distinctive traits: Frosty, silvery gray foliage with exceptionally soft leaves Key features: Enchanting coloration: Silvery gray leaves

Discover Tillandsia 'Houston Cotton Candy', a delightful variant of the popular 'Houston' hybrid that brings a touch of ethereal beauty to your airplant collection:

Parentage: Tillandsia stricta × Tillandsia recurvifolia
Origin: A select form of the 'Houston' hybrid, originally created by renowned botanist Mark Dimmitt
Distinctive traits: Frosty, silvery-gray foliage with exceptionally soft leaves

Key features:

  • Enchanting coloration: Silvery-gray leaves create a frosted, ethereal appearance
  • Soft texture: Leaves are notably softer than the standard 'Houston' variety
  • Stunning blooms: Bright blush to rose pink flowers resemble cotton candy
  • Impressive size potential: Can grow into large, eye-catching clumps
  • Fast-growing: Inherits vigorous growth habit from T. stricta parentage

'Houston Cotton Candy' forms a perfect, symmetrical rosette of long, slender leaves. Each leaf is a delicate silvery-gray, giving the plant an almost frosted appearance. The leaves curve gracefully outward, creating a living sculpture that catches and reflects light beautifully. While not in bloom in this photo, imagine the stunning contrast when the blush pink flowers emerge, crowning this silvery beauty with a cotton candy-like display.

Scientific note: This variant demonstrates:

  • The potential for selecting unique traits within established hybrid lines
  • How subtle variations in leaf texture and color can create distinct cultivars
  • The ongoing evolution of popular Tillandsia hybrids to suit different aesthetic preferences

Care tip: Provide bright, indirect light to maintain the silvery coloration. The soft leaves may be more susceptible to water retention, so ensure excellent air circulation after watering. Mist thoroughly 2-3 times a week or soak for 20-30 minutes every 1-2 weeks, allowing to dry completely between waterings.

Ideal for:

  • Collectors seeking softer, more delicate-looking Tillandsia specimens
  • Those who appreciate subtle variations in popular hybrid lines
  • Enthusiasts looking for airplants with impressive growth and clumping potential
  • Decorators wanting a sculptural, silvery accent piece with seasonal pink blooms

Display recommendation: The frosty, silvery appearance of 'Houston Cotton Candy' makes it an excellent centerpiece for airplant arrangements. Consider displaying it against a dark background to highlight its ethereal coloration, or in hanging displays where its symmetrical form can be fully appreciated.

Bring a touch of silvery softness to your airplant collection with Tillandsia 'Houston Cotton Candy'. Experience the joy of nurturing this delicate beauty, watching as it grows into an impressive clump crowned with delightful pink blooms.

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Beautiful, glorious, and depressing but not without levity
Probably Gilliams most serious film, a story of a dreamer in a dystopian bureaucratic future, plagued by monotony and endless paperwork, our protagonist (played by Jonathan Pryce) isn't sure what he wants in his life, but he knows he wants something different. When the Department of Information Retrieval disappears the wrong person (played by Robert De Niro), our hero goes to reimburse the widow and discovers a woman living in the same building who looks like the woman out of his dreams (played by Kim Greist). Really stellar performances by Pryce, and a gaggle of supporting actors such as Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Kathrine Helmond, and Bob Hoskins. Greists performance is probably the weakest, but she does enough for the role that the critique of it amounts to a nit pick really. While this film is considered a cult classic, I would qualify it even less and say its just a classic, full of symbolism with a increasingly repressive tone throughout balanced by Gilliams puncturing, dark humor.
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Mr. Watkins
Draper, US
★★★★★ 5
Classic Terry Gilliam- Watch It!
One of the best Terry Gilliam movies out there. Made in the 1980's, the cast is superb, and it holds up well 40 years on. WAtch it- it's a trip!
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Grantham, US
★★★★★ 5
BLU RAY is the 132 minute Original U.S. Theatrical Cut FINALLY!!!!
] On this Blu-ray for the first time ever we get the ORIGINAL 132 minute version of the film as was shown in U.S. theaters. (Note: This is NOT the "Love Conquers All" Sheinberg/TV Edit.) All the DVD releases before this have been the European Version/Director's Cut of the film. Even the original Universal DVD release that said Theatrical Cut on the box actually had the European Version/Director's Cut. Unfortunately, Universal didn't really spend any time cleaning up the negative for Hi-Definition (there is very noticeable instances of dirt and debris on the negative) but it still beats the image quality found on the Universal SD DVD, and they do include an amazing DTS-HD Master 5.1. We'll just have to wait for the Criterion Blu-ray of Brazil for image perfection but serious fans of Brazil will want to get this Blu-ray edition just to have this version of the film as it was originally seen in theaters in 1985. I actually find this 132-minute version is in many ways a superior cut of the film. Here are the differences in detail: *In the 132-minute version you cut from Sam in bed with Jill, police sack goes over head, then CUT TO Pull off police sack to reveal Sam in Torture Chamber/Interrogation chair. This one cut is simply brilliant and very powerful. In the Criterion Version you have the added scene of Mr. Helpman as Father Christmas (completely out of charcater from the rest of the film) and the whole interrogation scene of Sam hanging from the rack inside the police/mail pouch which becomes narratively redundant and dilutes the impact of the final scene. *To end it with cooling tower/interrogation room fade to clouds was a great Gilliam wink of subversion and irreverence to the cliche Hollywood Ending. As opposed to the European cut of just credits over cooling tower/interrogation room. *The Samurai Scene is divided into 3 separate scenes in the 132-minute version versus 1 LONG scene in the European cut. And you know what? Like most things, it works better in 3's. *The 132-minute version cuts straight to the Dinner Scene with Ida (his mother) ordering numero deux, trois, etc. while the European version has the entrance to the restaurant of going through the metal detector which really doesn't add anything and is again a bit redundant when the bomb does eventually go off in the restaurant. With the scene, you're signaling to the audience we are looking for a bomb, so we expect a bomb. Without the added scene, the bombing is unexpected and it actually shocks you so you're both horrified and laughing. The unexpectedness also works as it builds upon the bomb motif from the first explosion at the beginning of Brazil during the Ducts advert. *And finally I just love that the 132-minute version opens on those clouds (outtakes from The Never-Ending Story) then goes to the Central Services advert about Ducts: "Are your ducts old-fashioned, out-of-date... " Now the Criterion version also has the clouds opening (The Original European Cut didn't) but it's funny because the Studio asked Gilliam to start off with the clouds for the US Cut and he actually prefers it as quoted in his Director's commentary. Hilarious. Little changes that add up to a tighter and overall, better film.
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★★★★★ 5
Great cast; well directed
Great movie; lives up to its reviews
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Basket Case
Dallas, US
★★★★★ 5
An ageless classic !
I hadn't re-watched this movie since the first time I saw it, when it came out in 1985. Back then, it had stricken the public with its fatalistic and pessimistic view of an overwhelming bureacracy, a suggested characteristic of fully-centralised power in a controlled society in the future. Today, we can still admire some of its validity and premonitory qualities (and the sarcastic humour !). The dream-like scenes and symbols used in the film are also ageless. Ever-growing computer systems govern today the relationships we hold with banks, government departments, utilities, phone companies, etc. Who hasn't experienced the frustration of dealing with their 'machines' and/or incompetent & robotic bureaucrats when problems or errors arise in their service? 'Brazil' will seem so familiar! The omni-presence of screens in our lives, everywhere and incessantly offering us products or services, or used to control our movements and behaviour, is also a well-guessed futuristic scenario by Gilliam & co. And what to say about the 'terrorism' and the 'permanent state of fear' portrayed back then? Sounds familiar today? I recommend this movie to anyone interested in the threats of an unbridled, arrogant and all-powerful bureaucracy in human society. The film can be a bit 'heavy' at times, though. Not everyone's cup of tea. Watch it first, before sharing with friends or family.
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