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I recently struck up a conversation with a stranger (as gardeners often do) — a fellow plant-aholic — while visiting a local nursery. She saw me eyeing a colorful bromeliad and offered that she’s ...

Before they die, most bromeliads will send up pups from their base, and these small plants can be used to grow the next generation. The pups produced are actually part of that original plant. As such, ...

Bromeliads are a beautiful family of tropical and subtropical plants. Most bromeliads possess colorful foliage, beautiful flowers or both. With their many sizes, shapes, colors and ease of culture, ...

Q. In June, I received a green bromeliad with a bright red "flower." We have kept it in indirect sunlight and kept its "cups" watered. In the last month, the red color has faded. What should I do? C.B ...

Just because winter rolls around doesn't mean you can't continue to enjoy stunning plants around your home. Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) are a family of brightly colored tropical plants that make for ...

Thought by some to be the perfect houseplants, bromeliads are easy to grow. Bromeliads are a large family of about 2,000 species and hybrids, the flowers of which are rivaled by only the finest ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I have organized most of my garden into sections with plants from the world’s Mediterranean regions (also called summer-dry regions). These regions include ...

You wouldn’t think that the word “pup” had anything to do with gardening. The dictionary defines a pup as the young of dogs or several other animals. Gardeners, however, use the term to refer to ...