Bromeliad

Growing sky plant from offshoots or “pups” is the best way to create new plants. (16 C.), but temps around 50 F. This member of the Bromeliad family will growon a variety of organic surfaces.

If your air plant is in a container, uncover the container and place it in an airy location. If the plant begins to look swollen, it's absorbing too much water and will benefit from a shorter bath.).Place your air plant in bright, indirect or filtered...

There are over 120 different guzmania plants and all are native to South America. They cause no injury to their host plant but just use them for support.The leaves collect rainwater and the plant receives nourishment in its natural environment from decomposing...

These plants are easier to keep to container size, so you can move them in and protect them in case of freezing weather.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });10 to 11.

Although interior bromeliad plants will fail after a while and cease growth, they will produce offsets, or pups, that you can remove and start as new plants.Watch for pups at the base of the plant and nurture them until they are large enough to break...

This depression is responsible for collecting nutrients and water. For this reason, increased growth is done through separate plantlets at the base, or offsets, and the adult bromeliad won't flower again.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

Leaf edges may have some serration. Pups should be potted up in a mixture of peat and perlite until the young bromeliad has a good root system. Bright light and warm daytime temperatures with nightly temperatures 10 to 20 degrees lower will produce the...

The center of a bromeliad is called a tank or cup. If you want to enjoy your plant for months and months, you want to be sure to take care of it.Remember that the water can be rainwater, filtered water or tap water, that watering bromeliads should be...

The flaming sword houseplant is commonly named for its red bracts that appear when the plant is three to five years old. Sever pups when they are one-half to two-thirds the size of the mother plant.Thus, the process begins again.

Beneath the dying leaves you'll find two or more “pups” — baby urn plants. They leave several lovely gifts behind. Those colorful, long lasting bracts rising from the center of the plant are the ultimate reward in caring for an urn plant.

Once the unique flower is spent, you should remove it so the plant can spend its energy on forming pups.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Bromeliad care after flowering is much the same while it was in...

Just like any plant, air plants need regular water, light and food. A new owner of Tillandsia may wonder “can you water an air plant too much?” How often to mist air plants depends upon the type, the situation and the size of the plant as well as...

It is a ball made of chicken wire crumpled together; the airplants are attached with fishing line. The plants will grow any which way you position them, right way up, upside down, sideways, so let your imagination take over: Mount them on driftwood, in...

Nor will they ever care (unless they read this article).These are somewhat frost tolerant, heat-loving, drought tolerant terrestrial Central and South American bromeliads that love the arid sun and are really not well suited to most landscapes across...

(right) Bromeliads used as landscaping in a private garden.Most bromeliads are made up of a rosette of leaves and a wimpy root system at the end of a seemingly absent or very short stem, though there are exceptions.

Colors have intensified in the brighter, outdoor light. Mixing a slow-release, pelleted fertilizer in the potting mix works well, or you might prefer to fertilize occasionally with a dilute solution of balanced water-soluble fertilizer.Earth stars like...

Epsom salts give a boost of magnesium that can be critical to many plats' health and so may help flowering. THis should induce flowers, but remember that any given rosette will only flower once.Pups are offsets from a mature rosette.

Dyckias and Hechtias are two terrestrial bromeliad species that are excellent potted as well as landscape plants, particularly for warm, arid climates. The following serves as an introduction to some of these plants and suggestions on how to grow them.

The pineapple is an example of a(literally, “virgin fruit”) plant that does not require pollination of the flower to produce fruit. The pineapple is also aconsisting of dozens of individual fruits, represented by the bumps on the skin, that are fused...

The individual flowers of an inflorescence are usually called florets, and the arrangement of these florets is different in the different types of flower clusters. A flower is solitary as in a single flower, while an inflorescence is a cluster that contains...

Pour batter evenly on pineapple.Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.Cool for 5 minutes. In the meantime, I think I will whip up one of Mom's pineapple upside down cakes.If you would like to start your...

Follow these few basics in bromeliad plant care, and this fiery favorite promises a taste of the tropics year-round. Remarkably talented with flamboyant, colorful blooms and modern, spiky foliage , it's no wonder this exotic plant has been “tamed' to...

*This is most likely a plant best enjoyed in the warmer portions of zone 9, 10, and 11. Queen's Tears readily multiplies by rhizomes creating a dense mass of foliage and can be grown in a well draining soil or as a semi-epiphyte on a board.

The smooth leaves form a central rosette where the flower bract emerges. The colorful flower bract lasts for 2-3 months. This is a blooming plant in a 5” pot. Guzmania ‘Kay' (Bromeliad hybrid) ‘Kay' is a beautiful Guzmania hybrid with a spectacular...

It will always enjoy high humidity as well as shade during much of the day. As with many of the Aechmea species, the Matchstick Bromeliad is one of the most reliably cold hardy bromeliads and is considered to be reliably hardy down to 20 o F for short...

Many times I chance upon a plant that provides beautiful surprises. Most of my bromeliads are put in containers and moved to the greenhouse come winter. Indoors, mist the plants occasionally with room temperature water and feed with a reduced strength...

Billbergia amoena reaches 3 feet and offers growers a showy but short-lived flower. Dyckia maritima reaches 6 1/2 feet. These plants offer gardeners a wide variety of sizes, shapes and colors to work with.