I feel like such a lurker recently! I've been enjoying all the posts on the forum, but between work and weather (mostly the weather), it's taken a lot longer than normal to get all my broms outside to the shade house. We got a teaser of warm weather in late April and early May that encouraged me to take out a lot of (what I thought were) cold tolerant broms. Then Mother Nature flipped the calender pages on us. We ended up with 10 days in May where the temp didn't make it past 60 degrees. Night time lows were unusually chilly, too. 21 morning lows of 45 or colder. May 26th we had our first 80+ degree temp, followed by a frost advisory and a low for the month of 36 on May 28!

For all of that, 95% of the Neos. came through looking none the worse for the experience. A few did suffer some cold damgage, and some of them are recovering already. The Tillandsias seemed just as happy as could be with the cool weather. Others to show damage included about 20% of some young Vriesea plants/ seedlings, a tray of Orthophytum saxicola seedlings- hard grown seedlings showed minimal damage, those which had been fertilized showed heavy damage and several died. Finally, an Orthophytum 'Copper Penny' clump showed significant leaf damage. It's starting to recover, but I'm afraid it's going to take most of the summer before it's looking decent again.

I think the weather is finally settled here. I finally got the the more cold sensitive broms out in early June- about 3 weeks later than usual! Neos are coloring up and blooming, so I'll have some pics to share soon.

Paul