Growing tropical Bromeliads in cold weather | Tips & plant tour

Tropical and exotic Bromeliads are tough, colourful and specialised plants that have adapted to thrive in locations around the world. There are lots of different Bromeliad genus, species and cultivars available due to their long history of cultivation and breeding. The four Bromeliad genus I grow are Billbergia, Aechmea, Neoregelia and Tillandsia.
In cold weather conditions these exotic epiphytes have been growing in my frost free greenhouse. Their colours have shifted with the varying availability of heat and daylight as the seasons changed. Some are growing bare root, some are wrapped in sphagnum moss and others are potted in a free draining orchid mix.
This video give a tour of my Bromeliad collection with tips on how to grow and care for bromeliads.
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[@csotnick]

Great video!! You're inspiring me to grow these plants in my yard and house in Toronto, Canada. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

[@anneholland9813]

Would love to see some bromeliads in the Grow Paradise shop.

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks for letting me know! 😁🪴🪴🪴

[@PaulConnor100]

Craig can you grow Billbergia in the ground using your mix in a pot with gravel below to keep it off the soil

[@intheframemedia]

would be keen to buy some small pups to add to my collection, couldnt see any on your site

[@paultheplantparent2702]

Fellow bromeliad lover here!!! Great video!!! 😃👍🏼🪴

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks for watching 😀🪴

[@maamnins4661]

I have just started growing bromeliads and your tips in growing them will help me a lot. I have a few aechmeas neoregelias, billbergias and tillandsias in my collection. They are rather costly, more than other plants here in the Philippines so it is difficult for me to have the more colorful varieties. I have been collecting philodendrons before but I found that broms are more low maintenance than philos. Thanks again for sharing your experiences in growing them.

[@GrowParadise]

Good luck! They are beautiful plants. Thanks for watching :D

[@charliebrown9188]

Craig, you have a wonderful collection there, it's funny you bought the orange one from Portugal, as a child in the early 70's I could barely carry a watering can half filled, it was for my brother and me to water the potted plants in pots and my grandmother did have an enormous collection all around the house, not to mention the garden. I remember it as if it were yesterday, we always watered the bromeliads in the centre, Aechmea Fasciata comes to mind, though I cant remember what flowers it had anymore, only later in life did I realise that I was doing it right lol I can't remember if my grandmother told us to do or not, it is possible she did though. Perhaps I was just being experimental and filling it up only to see it disappearing away though the gaps in the foliage, this is something I still do with many other plants 🙈🙈🙈🙈 In my childhood Portuguese winters in the north west were wet, frosty and often miserable, yet those bromeliads survived. Your video brought back some lovely memories 🙂 I must get me some I think, even though now I live in the south east UK. My favourite in your video is the aechmea orlandiana ensign, and I cant find it anywhere in the online shops, perhaps I need an in depth search. As always amazing and very educational video, thanks for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@GrowParadise]

I always love hearing memories and stories of peoples experiences of plants 😁

[@johna9851]

From Australia. Craig you are an interesting bloke and your enthusiasm shows through. Thanks for the video.

[@TheBergmaster]

Billbergia nutans does very well outdoors all year round

[@vincenzecalzone8666]

Beautiful bromeliads. The only one I grow is bifasicular color. Love the pink armoured variety

[@GrowParadise]

It's beautiful but very ferocious 😂

[@heftysgarden]

Note to self ~ buy more bromleliads! Any specific varieties / suggestions for deeeep shade? I currently use Guzmanias in the garden and they love it. Bloody love spanish moss too

[@GrowParadise]

Billbergia windii is great on shade and reasonably hardy too 😁👍

[@TheLittleGreenBee]

Love bromeliads. I grew some in the garden last year but unfortunately they must be pretty tasty as one of our sheep escaped giving them a good prune so now some don’t look so good, they’re still growing so I’m hoping they pup and I can then discard the chomped mother plant. I’d love one of the Ensign if you plan to sell in the shop or any of the more colourful ones or the smaller varieties as like you I like to place in branches. I bring mine into the house for winter as my greenhouse is unheated at present.

[@GrowParadise]

Wow! You don't often hear of sheep eating Bromeliads 😂 Thanks for letting me know which ones you like best. 👍

[@stephenw.6588]

Fantastic collection and great video! Thank you

[@GrowParadise]

Thanks Stephen 😁