It is a foggy morning and I am sitting here looking out the window at the back garden. I noticed that the bromeliads that are mounted on trees suffered no damage from our recent hard freeze. The temp was hovering in the mid twenties for about 7 hours for 3 days running. I did not try to protect anything in the trees. Another brom that was in a pot but set in the crotch of a tree did sustain freeze damage. Not sure but I suspect the moisture circulating in the tree itself is the same temp as the ground water and that provides some warmth for the plants where the roots are firmly attached to the bark.
On another note, although some of the broms in the ground, like Neo. Magali have white leaves from the cold, it will be interesting to see what happens in the spring. Will they die off or make new pups? The matchstick aechmeas took the freeze with a grain of salt, they never even blinked. Obviously, like some of the old timey pass-along billbergias, they are very hardy.
