Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Landscape broms in my yard, 0 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
Gainesville FL isn't a place you would normally expect to see a whole lot of bromeliads planted out in, but, I have found its totally doable here if you pay attention to just a few things which were pointed out to me by members of the local brom society...

One, picking hardier plants, LOL
Two, where you plant
Three, being ready to throw a blanket on if it gets much below about 27F (although some I never, EVER cover, they have been at 22F without damage!)

I have had all the plants in the following photos in my yard for going on 7 years. Some are progeny of plants that are planted in other places in the yard, pups were divided off and replanted in new locales.

I like the look of broms in the yard and have all sorts...Ananas, neoregelia, aechmea, nidularium, billbergia, and xerics like Dyckia, Hechtia, Puya and Deuterocohnia

This is a somewhat hard to find xeric called Deuterocohnia brevispicata. It grew in a container outdoors for years. I finally got tired of it poking me when I needed to move it so I planted it out. It has a spread of about 2 ft and the spines are WICKED