Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants and Gardens #116, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
Sigh, guess I have to start feeding my fancy broms, maybe mine would set buds then. LOL I am so spoiled by these bilbergias, those things bloom no matter how badly you ignore them.

Last year, because of the cold I think, my Taiwanese cycad did not form it's cone until very late in the summer. It has not yet disintegrated and a new cone is already forming underneath it. See my little friend hiding between the layers?