{"id":18622,"date":"2017-06-20T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18622"},"modified":"2017-06-20T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:58:24","slug":"bromeliad-vriesea-and-guzmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bromeliad-vriesea-and-guzmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromeliad, Vriesea and Guzmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18625\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most Bromeliad of the thousands of species are tropical plants. In the UK they make good house plants and pot plants for a conservatory. Others plants in the same family are the\u00c2\u00a0 genus including\u00c2\u00a0 <span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">Aechmea, Neoregelia, Vriesea and Guzmania<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Bromeliad Care<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The foliage\u00c2\u00a0 grows in a natural rosette of sword shaped leaves.<\/li>\n<li>A central cup of leaves catches water in the plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s natural habitat. In the home just top up this cup with soft water once a week. Over-watered\u00c2\u00a0 can cause root rot.<\/li>\n<li>Use a liquid feed once a\u00c2\u00a0 month but not via the cup.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid direct sunlight but the plants need plenty of light. Semi-shade is ideal.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Keep the air humid by putting the pot in a saucer of gravel.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The brightly colored leaves are\u00c2\u00a0 called bracts.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>After flowering the Bromeliad may start to produce offsets called pups.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18587\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania-2.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brugsmania-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00c2\u00a0Water in the &#8216;cup&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<a title=\"guzmania\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4405871357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4405871357_28876f7888.jpg\" alt=\"Kew 092\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Guzmania<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Bromeliad of the thousands of species are tropical plants. In the UK they make good house plants and pot plants for a conservatory. Others plants in the same family are the\u00c2\u00a0 genus including\u00c2\u00a0 Aechmea, Neoregelia, Vriesea and Guzmania Bromeliad Care The foliage\u00c2\u00a0 grows in a natural rosette of sword shaped leaves. A central cup of leaves catches water in the plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s natural habitat. In the home just top up this cup with soft water once a week. Over-watered\u00c2\u00a0 can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bromeliad-vriesea-and-guzmania\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}