Joining Cathy at http://www.wordsandherbs.wordpress.com for Day Four of AWIF. Follow the link to see more floral loveliness. I am featuring more Bromeliad madness from my garden. Above is Aechmea miniata, a favorite of mine as it is a reliable summer bloomer and really funky. A closer view:
Another summer favorite the Torch or Hurricane Bromeliad, it flowers at the peak of hurricane season and looks like a torch.
Happy Saturday from South Florida.
The Shrub Queen 
Your Bromeliads do so well. It is funny that so many plants are named for hurricane season.
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Thanks, yes, I prefer the non hurricane names like Flaming Torch.
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The first one looks so festive. They are such strange but beautiful flowers…. maybe more so because we never see them here. A couple of ‘Broms’ find their way into the houseplant section at the garden centres here, but they are never as spectacular as yours!
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Thanks, Cathy. I am fascinated with them. There are 3500 kinds of broms and a lot of landscape varieties that never make it out of the tropics I imagine. I was astonished when I moved here by the variety.
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*SIGH* Your bromeliad flowers are stunning.
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Thanks, Kris..garage sale finds!
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These are truly beautiful, Amy. One could really go crazy with the variety out there.
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Indeed and spent beaucoup $. The one I want costs 90 and I just can’t bring myself to do it.
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Oh, gosh, that’s what we’d pay for a shrub or small tree. I can appreciate your reticence.
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I agree.. and the most easily grown broms at at garage sales for five bucks 😁
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Thrift does it for me. Spring plant sales and passalongs were all I could afford 30 years ago when we first moved here. I managed nicely!
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Beautifully..I would say. Yankee ingenuity? My Dad was born in Springfield.. maybe I got some too?
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Thank you! Where there is a will there is a way. Nothing can stop a determined gardener. 🙂
Yanks are known for their thrift. We joke that is why they have barns… they never throw anything out, broken or not, one might need that very thing or a part of it someday, ha!
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yep.
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