Billbergia 'Blondie'
Archive entry 13.05.12
28th March 2006
This strange yellow leaved form sports from time to time from 'Santa Barbara'. It always looks as though
it has been bleached in the sun, or some strange algal growth has crawled over it in a suffocating sort
of way as a prelude to world domination. The pink flowers are really pink, a colour
combination that is ugly enough to be wonderful. Fortunately, the flowers don't last long enough to be
tiresome.
'Santa Barbara Sport' is a hopeless name, but I am sure it must have ocurred in many other places, and has
been given a decent name somewhere - I just haven't found it yet!
3rd November 2011
13th May 2012
1st August 2015
I am delighted to report that in the USA this sport has been named 'Blondie'. There is some doubt concerning the species it is a sport from
but the proper cultivar name is now sorted.