Excellent, thank you Gonzer.

Here is a photo taken 6/23/21 showing the actual flowering on my Tillandsia concolor. 

The flower spike holding on to great coloration still in late September weeks after flowering. 

Pineapple.... the newest addition to the garden.  One of my wife's mosaic projects that we just mounted on our back deck, one of my old boards repurposed after it's life surfing was over.

Neoregelia 'Lucifer' for a Halloween treat 

Aechmea 'Red Candles'.  Soaking up some rays indoors. 

Neoregelia fluminensis x Olens 696 growing mounted on Ligustrum. 

 

Here are three semiarid bromeliads that are different from one another except they all have nasty thorns. Beautiful just don't touch or you'll get bit. 

Photo one. Encholirium sectabile very thorny, can grow several feet across. I think mine will be red or orange leaves come summer. 

Photo two. Dyckia orange splendor will have bright orange leaves in full sun. Notice that one of them is blooming. Blooms are vivid white and small but pretty. 

Photo three. Dyckia 'grape jelly' will have dark plum leaves with white teeth as they grow. 

Dyckia " ...Whatever the heck it is.. " reaching out to touch ( err, grab.. ) someone..


..Baby ... Flesh grabber?,  lol!

Billbergias in flower now. 

 

Edited February 19, 20224 yr by Tampa Scott

Aechmea caudata Patches in flower. 

Here is a look at Quesnelia Testudo enjoying the 80f temperatures. 

Neoregelia mcwilliamsii variegated showing great red coloration as it approaches the flowering stage. 

A rare sight on Dyckia rariflora.   This specimen anyway.   ..Apparently pollinated by:  ..Ants.. 

Gonna have a lot of these if all the seed is fertile.  Into a wider/ slightly deeper pot this colony goes once all the seed is collected.

Edited June 5, 20224 yr by Silas_Sancona
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Aechmea fasciata 'Primera' putting on a flower show in the garden. 

Neoregelia 'Hokule'a Night' caught the attention of a Luna Moth (Actias Luna) 

 

3 hours ago, Tampa Scott said:

Neoregelia 'Hokule'a Night' caught the attention of a Luna Moth (Actias Luna) 

 

 

Neoregelia carcharadon mounted in Brugmansia secured by Dischidia beside Ptychosperma

I'm growing three species of this genus, but Pitcairnia ringens , a terrestrial species from southern Mexico is definitely the most productive of them... in terms of offsets and flowering. I started it from seed and it grows like grass and has unarmed leaves. Definitely something different and adaptable. I grow mine outdoors year-round in pots in suburban Sacramento up against an east-facing wall. Flower spikes are very showy and long lasting.

Unknown variety. I think they’re ugly and i don’t know the first thing about them but but I’m pretty sure they’re impossible to kill. Apparently it came as a funeral plant 15+ years ago and was neglected all that time. It grew mounding up on top of itself. Curiosity got to me and I had to find out what would happen if I disassembled the mound. I divided it into 3 similarly sized pots and planted 4 or 5 similarly sized groups in the ground. Some are in full sun and some aren’t. Some get water and some don’t. No matter, but they all look the same.
 

On 9/13/2022 at 4:00 PM, 5am said:

Unknown variety. I think they’re ugly and i don’t know the first thing about them but but I’m pretty sure they’re impossible to kill. Apparently it came as a funeral plant 15+ years ago and was neglected all that time. It grew mounding up on top of itself. Curiosity got to me and I had to find out what would happen if I disassembled the mound. I divided it into 3 similarly sized pots and planted 4 or 5 similarly sized groups in the ground. Some are in full sun and some aren’t. Some get water and some don’t. No matter, but they all look the same.
 

Bilbergia nutans. They would look a lot better mounted to a tree. They really take on character there. I have them covering my Mule palms in FL mixed with ferns

11 minutes ago, Kailua_Krish said:

Bilbergia nutans. They would look a lot better mounted to a tree. They really take on character there. I have them covering my Mule palms in FL mixed with ferns

Thank you! Now that I know what they are I can provide proper care and see what happens. 

On 9/2/2022 at 1:55 PM, Hillizard said:

I'm growing three species of this genus, but Pitcairnia ringens , a terrestrial species from southern Mexico is definitely the most productive of them... in terms of offsets and flowering. I started it from seed and it grows like grass and has unarmed leaves. Definitely something different and adaptable. I grow mine outdoors year-round in pots in suburban Sacramento up against an east-facing wall. Flower spikes are very showy and long lasting.

Despite the cool/cold weather we're experiencing in my area, this potted bromeliad species has withstood temps in the mid-20s deg F without any complaints (no leaf spotting). I may put some in the ground later this spring.

Tillandsia Bulbosa in the flowering mode.

Aechmea recurvata, various forms, surrounded by CA native tanacetum bipinnatum.

Neoregelia Gee Whizz, a big one

The Aechmea Burgundy's mounted on palm trunks are in flower now.

Here’s a few photos of my own garden in Berkeley, California this week mid-March 2023. It’s been a really wet winter this year, raining again as I post this. 

Billbergia Pink Champagne.

Gonzer, nice photo, quite exquisite. 

Tim

On 3/21/2023 at 7:58 AM, Gonzer said:

Billbergia Pink Champagne.

Nice to see your post... pretty spectacular colors on this.  How large is that flower?  I'm guessing not very big.

Dyckia rariflora  gearing up...

12 hours ago, Tracy said:

Nice to see your post... pretty spectacular colors on this.  How large is that flower?  I'm guessing not very big.

Standard Billbergia flower Tracy. Nothing fancy about it, it's just how nice (and lucky) the photos came out.

Some Neoregelia in the garden. The color is amazing.

Tim

I don't know what it is, but there's a thicket of it in Golden Gate Heights Park, formerly Chert Rock Park, in San Francisco.

On 3/26/2023 at 7:48 AM, Rivera said:

I don't know what it is, but there's a thicket of it in Golden Gate Heights Park, formerly Chert Rock Park, in San Francisco.

It looks to be a species of Puya.

 

 

 

 

19 minutes ago, Gonzer said:

 

Yeah, maybe some variety of Puya coerulea? Flowers would help. I really don't know. 

On 3/28/2023 at 3:39 PM, Rivera said:

Yeah, maybe some variety of Puya coerulea? Flowers would help. I really don't know. 

Maybe

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puya coerulea.doc

14 hours ago, Gonzer said:

Maybe

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I posted some pics in the bromeliaceae forum on Agaveville and Paul over there ventured Fascicularia bicolor ssp. bicolor. 

8 hours ago, Rivera said:

I posted some pics in the bromeliaceae forum on Agaveville and Paul over there ventured Fascicularia bicolor ssp. bicolor. 

 

First is the description of Puya coarulea and the second is a clump of Fascicularia bicolor.

Puya coerulea Lindley, Bot. Reg. 26: pl. 11. 1840.

Desc from S&D

Plant extremely variable but with all forms intergrading, flowering 1-2 m high; stem well developed, erect, stout.

Leaves rosulate at the summit of the stem, numerous, spreading, 4-6 dm long;

sheaths suborbicular, dark castaneous;

blades 1-2 cm wide, covered with appressed cinereous scales on both sides but becoming glabrous above, laxly serrate with antrorse uncinate red brown spines 3-5 mm long.

Scape erect, to 2 cm thick at base, finely tomentulose-lepidote to glabrous and glaucous; scape-bracts erect, the lower imbricate, lance-ovate, filiform-laminate, the upper ovate, apiculate.

Inflorescence amply bipinnate or rarely simple, white-tomentulose when young;

primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, many times shorter than the branches;

branches spreading or subspreading, 5-30 cm long with a long to short sterile base, laxly or sublaxly flowered.

Floral bracts from ovate and exceeding the pedicels to lanceolate and much shorter;

pedicels slender, 1-2 cm long; flowers more or less upwardly secund, very variable in size and indument.

Sepals lance-triangular to oblong-ovate, rounded and apiculate, 12-24 mm long, obtusely carinate at base;

petals tubular-erect, elliptic, obtuse, to 5 cm long, dark blue becoming almost black on drying, bearing 2 vertically attached appendages near base;

stamens included.

Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, shorter than the sepals.