Bromeliads are tough, reliable and incredibly beautiful tropical or semi-tropical plants that possess colorful foliage, beautiful flowers or both. Very undemanding and easy to grow, their main ...

It’s a question that tropical plant experts like Angel A. Lara hear regularly, particularly from those who have put other houseplants in jeopardy by subjecting them to this kind of no-frills regimen.

Bromeliads tend to have an “easy disposition” that allows them to flourish in low light with infrequent watering. And that’s not the only remarkable thing about them. By Margaret Roach And the answer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. red and yellow flowers on Vriesea bromeliad plants Delivering a touch of the tropics to your home, bromeliads are guaranteed to ...

Not long ago, I wrote about planting bromeliads in the garden. In response, I received an email from Jerry Robinson, one of the proprietors of Rainforest Flora (rain-forest-flora.com), whose retail ...

Guzmania bromeliads catch the eye with their brightly colored, long-lasting flowers of stark red, orange or pink. Pixabay photo The end of November is the start of the winter dormant season for many ...

Call it the season of patience, where an early blooming daffodil can send gardeners eagerly scurrying for seeds and shovels. But until it's warm and dry enough to return to the outdoors, better to ...

If you yearn to create a lush, tropical look for your landscape but are concerned about water use, consider incorporating bromeliads into your plant selection. Bromeliads are colorful, low-maintenance ...

Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...

Although we generally grow bromeliads in containers for convenience, in nature these plants are typically epiphytes — plants that grow on trees but are not parasites. The water-holding, vaselike shape ...