Aechmea, Billbergia & Other Easy care select plants

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Bromeliad - Aechmea,
Easy care Bromeliads 

Most of these Beautiful Hardy plants are under $10 to purchase and provide great color for any style of garden.
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Bromeliad Vriesea, Guzmania

• Bromeliads & exotic plants

Bromeliad - Billbergia

Billbergia are true easy care plants. These truly beautiful drought tolerant Bromeliad plants have very deep vases, designed for holding water for a very long period. 

Many Billbergias are grown mostly for the fascinating artwork and often vibrant colors on the foliage. 

However many are also grown for their almost breathtakingly beautiful, sadly short lived flowers. 

Making up for this, is the ease of propagation of many varieties which don't mind root competition & can happily be planted en-mass, creating a simply stunning display where the effect of the staggered flowering can be fully taken advantage of.

Such plants as the Billbergia Pyramid 'Kyoto' [albomarginmata] being ideal for this effect.

The showy clear green and white edged foliage in itself, making a great display, until the truly superb- almost luminous, brightly colored flowers begin dramatically emerging over several weeks.

Bromeliad Billbergia Pyramidalis 'Kyoto' - growing around base of palm trees...they don't mind root competition.

Hardy Bromeliad..simply add a tad of fertilizer annually and a bucket of mulch

Flowers just opening laden with pollen.

 New Flowers emerging.

"Kyoto" grows up to around 2 feet high [60cm] & produces pups or offsets quite freely. These can be cut off + planted out to increase your supply a little quicker or simply left to form a clump. 

Add a good 9-12 month, slow release fertilizer [prills the best] at the rate of a small handful per square meter for a clump or 1 heaped teaspoon per plant. 

Pests & Diseases rarely effect these plants - you will be more likely to be rewarded with garden friendly creatures - such as a beautiful frog or a cute little jumping spider.

Garden friendly creatures *Bromeliad plant companions

I Love Bromeliads.

• Bromeliads & exotic plants

Q&A Bromeliad Billbergia

Question?

How rare is Bromeliad Billbergia alfonsi johannis ? 

Answer- 

Difficult question - it is a Species that has been around for a very long time that has been used in producing a lot of cultivars. It has proved very popular for its beautiful good size flower & vigor. It has sometimes been confused with Billbergia 'Maxima' which is another very old plant that was introduced from Brazil into Belgium in 1879. In Australia -Although a limited number of plants were previously floating around , the main introduction to Australia was by seed in 1988 when import restrictions were lifted.