Stephanie LaRusso - How to Clean Up, Separate, and Repot Your Bromeliads
2027-02-11 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Northwest Regional Library, 3151 N University Dr,, coral springs, FL, 33071, United States
Bromeliads Live is a hands-on bromeliad care workshop with no projector necessary! Perfect for those who like to get their hands dirty. Stephanie will bring in a variety of bromeliads tools, and growing products and demonstrate common horticultural practices including how to know when bromeliad pups are ready to be clipped, how to pollinate bromeliad flowers to make hybrids, how/ when to re-pot bromeliads in a collection and how to select the right location for newly purchased plants. Soil mixes, fertilizers, and pesticide choices will be discussed, as well as how to troubleshoot common problems bromeliad owners may have with their collections at home.

Chris Maler - Landscape Design
2027-03-13 10:30 - 12:30
Chris Maler, FCHP, FFLCP, is a professional horticulturist, garden designer, and consultant. He is a native south Floridian, and has been in horticulture in Broward county since 1987. His professional work includes time as a nursery grower, an IPM pest control applicator, commercial and residential landscape designer, installer, project manager, and estate gardener on everything from homes and condos to multi-million dollar estates and golf courses.

Since 2022, Chris has been the Senior Director of Horticulture at Flamingo Gardens Botanical Garden in Davie FL.

Tony Millet - Rare Plants
2027-04-08 10:30 - 12:30
Tony Millet has been growing orchids for 30 years, hybridizing orchids for 20 years. He enjoys making hybrids using hard to find, rare, or different color forms of species. Many of Tony’s hybrids have been AOS awarded and he has received over 16 AOS awards. He is a Volunteer hybridizer and seedling grower at The Bonnet House in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was also Past President and Editor of Suffolk Orchid Society, Long Island, New York.
