Many nurseries will tell you to water bromeliads by spraying the foliage, but Keith Smith of Bromeliad Society International says this is a common misconception. To properly water a potted bromeliad, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. red and yellow flowers on Vriesea bromeliad plants Delivering a touch of the tropics to your home, bromeliads are guaranteed to ...

(Scripps Howard)It's hotly debated whether the fierce Carib Indians of the Island of Guadalupe were cannibals. So named "Canibales" by the Spanish to describe their ferocious defense against the ...

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 ...

Picture a group of hunters, some of them not so young, thrashing through the Ecuadorean jungle. Their quarry can be as small as a dandelion puff or as large as a tree. The intrepid group is dedicated ...

If you want to understand what Bryan Windham says about his bromeliad collection, it helps to have an ear for Latin. Hechtia, dyckia, neoregelia, tillandsia … the names roll off Windham’s tongue as he ...

Leonard Kent, a Los Angeles physician whose fascination with bromeliads led him to collect 40,000 of the tropical plants and establish a nursery that helped popularize them, has died. He was 90. Kent ...

Bromeliad grower Jeanne Garman despairs over the loss of local interest in a showy plant that has consumed her free time for more than 50 years. Even her own collection has dwindled from thousands to ...