Vrieseas are Spring bloomers. Here is Vr. Blaze in front and the very old cross Vr. Polonia behind.
Spring colors
More Vrieseas. Vr. Margarita in front, Vr. schwackiana rear left and Vr. Grand Purple to the right.
Aechmea distichantha var. glaziovii - you have probably seen its influence on several well known Ae. hybrids.
Aechmea spectabilis showing leaf color close to its best.
Tillandsia Wildfire, not yet colored up. This is a John Arden cross of T. multicaulis and T. deppeana, both of which are multi-spiked.
And a real oddball, Ronnbergia morreniana. Doesn't look like a Bromeliad at all.
Vriesea Midnight Splendor
Vriesea Poelmanii variegata (a little way to go yet)
Dave, very nice pics! Don't you love this time of year in the GH?
Dave, very nice collection. :-)
You're getting me all fired up to do some shopping. Just two more weeks until the spring plant festival here at USF's botanical gardens. Members get in a half hour early and I make a bee line right for the Bromeliad Guild and then the FL West Coast Bromeliad Society. I'm like a kid in a candy store! Thanks for sharing photos of some I've never seen before. I'll be sure to share photos of my new friends in a couple of weeks.