Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Your VERY BEST, MOST COOL, bromeliads?, 1 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
Our local weather dude says it will only be 28F here tomorrow morning, but the wind will pick up and it will feel like less than that, which is very bad news because tomorrow is one of my running days. So, like I did Tuesday when it was pouring rain, I will be running 11-13 miles on the treadmill at the gym (BORING). But I hafta do it.

Actually fluerone, don't laff, I do have a pop up tent greenhouse! I have had it now for about 8 years. Its very very useful. It has an inside square footage of about 75 sq ft. I erect it over an in-ground bed of bromeliads that I have and stack other potted plants in there with a little ceramic heater. It works extremely well.

I'm not so very worried about tonight because everything in the yard has already seen 28F this winter. But tomorrow and Friday, those are the bad days. Tomorrow I will be wrapping stuff and covering stuff. I brought everything potted in already under some sort of protection. They are saying possibly 20-21F here by first light Saturday am. That will actually break a record if it happens.

This is one of the little guys I will be covering up tomorrow, Neoregelia "Red Bands"