I'm glad you liked my photo. Thank you!.
You are right Jonna. It is winter here. But Formosa is a warm and humid area. It is crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn. It is located in the border of the country, between the geographic coordinates 26 and 22 South.
It was my first visit to the place and I was amazed to see so many blooming Tillandsias.
And the trees in the city were full of color . The blooming lapachos and bahuinia forficata were beautiful. And no one of them grow where I live, in the province of Buenos Aires.

Wow! So absolutely beautiful!

Ceci, I agree with Lin, you should add that Tillandisia photo to the database. It's a great shot of their habitat and blooms!

We have both of those trees as street trees here as well. We are at the high end of 20°N. I've often thought that 20° was just about the perfect latitude for me. I'm guessing it doesn't matter N or S as long as the altitude isn't much.

Buenos Aires is on my 'bucket list', I think spring or fall would be best. I'm not one for really cold weather.

Beautiful Ceci, the Tillandsia is just amazing, love to see them in their natural habitat blooming.

I had to laugh at myself this past week. I went to see the new Tarzan movie with a gal friend and noticed all the bromeliads growing in the trees Tarzan was swinging from.

You made me smile Sherri, because I always notice the plants in the movies. It is obvious that our interests make us see many things that other people don't notice.

Some July and August blooms around my garden:









Finally after three years a new flower on this Guzmania








A new plant I ordered online Neophytum 'Ralph Davis'


Neophytum "Burgundy Hill" Bromeliad, actually I ordered this one and got the Ralph as a bonus plant. Bromeliads.com

Very nice!

Beautiful collection Sherri. I can't get Bromeliads.com to open, is there more to the address?
BTW, you will love Burgundy Hill. I had a large one for many years which finally gave up the ghost. Just started over with a new little one.

Alice, try this link: http://www.bromeliad.com/

Wow, love this forum! Since this threads been running for a few years, I don't know if my post will help, but Y E S, I would love a topic just for Bromeliads. I am just in awe, looking through the Brom posts. I'm such a newbie, only have 1 kind of brom, Aechmea Frasciata. I got the first flowering plant for my sister's funeral. She loved plants, knew she'd have loved that brom with it's huge pink flower. Well, that pink lady eventually faded, but she left 5 pups with me. I gave 3 away, one didn't make it, and I still have the last one. It now is blooming!!! My first! I've had her for about 3 yrs and had just about gave up, even tried the apple thing. I gave a neighbor one of her pups and still have one more and that one is pupping! (that's a Brom word right?) I'm a little concerned though, seems she's attracted ants. (I posted in ask a question, before I found this thread.) I'm not sure if this is good or bad, for peony's ants are good. Some of the little purple flower buds look like the might be drying up or dying before they even open. Of course, they may have been doing that all along and I just didn't notice till the ants caught my attention. My lady is potted and sits outside during the summer, in Missouri. She is sharing her pot with her daughter and granpup. Advice always welcome!!
Fred, love your huge plants. Unfortunately, I live in an appartment with only a tiny yard and the weather doesn't permit planting them in the ground. Now if you ever have some little ones....lol You have 2 green hands!! Truely, lovely work.

Anni55

Hi Naomi and welcome! This is our very own place to talk about bromeliads. Our thread gets flurries of traffic and then will go quiet for sometimes weeks, so one thread is really enough for us, it seems. The forums for one type of plant seem to fizzle out for lack of interest, unless it is a huge group like Orchids, Plumeria, Irises or Daylilies.

Now that you've joined us here, each time somebody posts you will get a notification. We love both asking and answering questions and helping to ID new brom plants etc. I always figure that the only "dumb" question is the one you don't ask.

Well done on re-blooming your A. fasciata. Do you have pictures? I've been hovering over those, itching to buy one and try it here in my garden. I have lots of great space in partial shade for them, and my Billbergias grow and multiply wonderfully, planted directly in the ground. I have a few Aechmeas and some tillandsias, too.

As far as ants go, no they won't do any harm, or good. But you're going to have to get rid of them before you bring your plant in for the cold weather. I like using ant bait the best because it doesn't kill off other organisms and beneficial insects, it just targets the ants. Depending upon what kind of ants they are, you can use either a sweet bait like Terro, or a solid protein bait like Amdro. Different ants eat different stuff. I get ants in my outdoor pots all the time, and I leave them unless I have to move the pot and they are getting on me. Or if they are fire ants!

Hi Naomi, from me too!

Urn Plant (Aechmea fasciata) is a lovely Bromeliad. It's one I've tried growing a couple of times over the years but I don't recall what ever happened to them ... either they died or were possibly gifted to one of my neighbors at our old house. I used to trade plants with two of my old neighbors.

Welcome to NGA @Anni55

Welcome Naomi!

I got this plant at a garden club exchange last night. It was labeled as a bromeliad. The only other notes were, shade, wet/dry and 12 to 15 inches tall. I was hoping someone could give me a little more info. There are tiny barbs along the leaves and the back side of the leaves are a waxy grayish color.

Yup, nice one you've got there Sondra. They truly are a nearly no-maintenance plant. Just plant it somewhere under trees, and every year or two separate the pups once they're about half the size of the mamma plant to increase your nice clump of them.

They are epiphytes that feed mostly through their leaves so whatever falls on them from the trees above is usually enough nutrition to sustain them. I have orchids (also epiphytes) so once in a while when I'm walking through with my sprayer I give my broms a spritz with orchid fertilizer which is very dilute.

The roots mainly serve to hold the plant in place, so that's why they thrive under big trees in little or no soil, and can make a nice show without competing with the tree roots for soil nutrients.

There is a little concern about water that pools in the 'cups' of the leaves of bromeliads being a mosquito breeding ground, but I just either broadcast some Mosquito Bits once in a while or (I always do this) keep some of my used coffee grounds in the cups which basically caffeinates the little mosquito larvae to death.

Thank you for the information. Do you know a more specific name? I would love to know what kind of bloom I can expect.

There are just too many to speculate on the name, sorry. Might be a better chance of a name once it does flower, though.

To give you an idea, here's a picture I took at a local nursery here that specializes in broms - literally thousands of different colors and all shapes and sizes too.