WOW!  Stunning.

Linda V
Connecticut zone 6b

The bromiliad I have come to find out is Aechmea distichantha, native to Brazil but planted hereabouts as a garden plant.

Beautiful Peter

birdlegs
zone 5
S.E. Lower MI.

Hello Peter,

Stunning picture! I have a brom that's been in the patio with filtered sun but looking like it was ran over by an 18 wheeler. Although it does have 3 pups on the side. Would you please share the growing conditions of yours? Full/part sun? Watering requirements? Size of pot? Should you separate the pups so they get larger or leave them alone? Thanks!

Sandra

Dana Point, CA - zone 9b

Beautiful picture, Peter. I love those Speckled hummingbirds you see!

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Sandra I have several of these (they were here when I arrived) and they´re growing in the ground. Since the house is in cloud forest they don´t get much sun except in July. I think they´re a high altitude plant in their native Brazil. The ground they´re in certainly never gets very dry. Temperature range is mid fifties to mid sixties.

Great photo!

Hi Peter,

Maybe I'll try to plant one of the pups in the ground and see what happens. Thanks!

Sandra

You took that picture in raw didn't you? You have adobe photoshop elements 7 does it recognize the canon 50d raw. I have elements 6 and it doesn't recognize the canon 50 raw So I used canons software

sarah merion station, Pennsylvania zone 6B

Spectacular photo and flower!

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6