Beginner Gardening: Did Lowe's play me fo' a sucka with this Bromeliad?, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I don't know much at all about Bromeliads but I have a couple planted in orchid bark mix. They are pretty much ignored and just watered with the garden hose every week along with everything else. When I see brown foliage I just pull or cut it off.

My neighbors went on a cruise about five years ago and I took care of their cat while they were away. They know I like birds and that I have a lot of feeders in the yard, so they brought me this coconut carved into the shape of a pair of woodpeckers. They thought I would use it for a bird feeder because it had a small opening that could hold seed. Well, I decided to plant a little Brom in it. The thing has grown quite a lot and bloomed a couple of times the past few years. The original plant died but the pups grow on.