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Old 02-03-2010, 06:18 PM
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Bromeliads in bloom

Spring is in the air

Queen's Tears:


Aechmea 'Black Jack'


and this one I am exited about, it flowers the first time for me.
I don't know the name, but I received it most likely via a trade... does anyone know this Pretty?


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Old 02-03-2010, 07:02 PM
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OMG that first one is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!!!! How I wish I could grow that here - this D*&%N cold weather.
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Old 02-03-2010, 07:07 PM
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Beautiful GT..... the first one is so unusual, it reminds me of pretty curtain tassles. The second and third are also stunning!

Thanks for sharing.
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Old 02-03-2010, 07:35 PM
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Lovely GT.
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Old 02-03-2010, 07:46 PM
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OH GT.. that queens tear is something i have to put on my have to GET list..LOL... I see you have many brommies?? They are gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing with us
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Old 02-03-2010, 09:18 PM
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Fabulous photos. I just potted up a Queen's Tears that I received from RiverRock. If it looks half as good as yours I'll be happy.
The NOID almost looks like some kind of exotic bug buried head-first into the plant. And the Aechmea is great also, I've got to put that one on my wish list. There goes the budget AGAIN!!!
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Old 02-03-2010, 09:21 PM
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Hi GT your Queen's Tears is gorgeous! I've never seen anything like that.
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Very beautiful bunch of Broms. Queens Tears are actually cold hardy for us in Texas. It is a great plant to grow under shrubs. I have one growing in a protected spot and it made it through the freeze but my Bilbergia nutan's relative the B. windii is a bit more sensitive. It is a live, but I bundled it. It has a few leaves with freeze burn. Nothing a scissors won't cure.
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Very nice GT!!! I am so much looking foward to when mine bloom

I grow mine in the house and they do really well. Few years ago I had a queen tears(i didnt know what it was) in the house and it bloomed, I remember thinking how pretty and differant it was.
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GT those are absolutely gorgeous. I love the Queens Tears...simply amazing.
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Its that time of year queens tears
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thanks everyone for the kind comments ... shucks, I was hoping someone could id the one Grumpy calls 'exotic bug buried head-first'. I'll snap a picture as soon as the flower is fully open...
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Luscious.........is the word for the 3.

Your plant remind me of a lady who moved from Hawaii an into florida.
She was on tv . Made her yard an tropical oasis . AN she did a wonderful job.
Just wondering how they get water there freely.

My neices have to carry water. All sand soil where thy live.
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Old 02-04-2010, 07:29 AM
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they are all really pretty thanks for sharing the pics
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Old 02-04-2010, 08:08 AM
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Absolutely beautiful, GT! I wish I could get my brom to bloom again. Too cold here in the "arctic" of Minnesota.
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