Billbergia x windii Billbergia 'Lilac Time' Bromeliads for Home and Garden

Bromeliads for Home and Garden by Jack Kramer is a well presented soft back book of 159 pages

Guzmania monostachia has a wide distribution from South and Central Amstrica to the West Indies and Florida where i have seen them growing in the wild in the swamps of south Florida

Tillandsia secunda can be grown epyphyticaly /mounted

imperialis was first collected by Europeans in 1866 near Orizaba

These are not full size plants

Billbergia x windii Billbergia 'Lilac Time' Bromeliads for Home and GardenBillbergia x windii is not uncommon in cultivation in Britain. It has a very nice inflorescence as you can see in my pictures. It does not require too much sun and is very easy to grow. This plant is said to be one of the first man made Bromeliad hybrids, between B. nutans and B decora in the 1870's at the Botanic gardens of Belgium. There is a great article by Dereck Butcher available online about this plant. For sale are large pups.