Aechmea Fasciata Silver Vase Or Urn Plant

This is a bromeliad, a direct relative of the pineapple. In your area it will be a house plant although you can grow it (better for the plant) outdoors in your frost free months. In the tropics it grows up in trees. Inside it grows best in bright indirect light (an unobstructed east or west facing window.) It should be watered when the potting mix feels dry down to your first knuckle. The best way to water is to water directly into the vase allowing it to overflow into the pot. This keeps the water in the vase from becoming stagnant and smelly. They require little feeding so an occasional application of an all purpose liquid houseplant fertilizer mixed to half the strength of the directions can be poured into the vase or more effectively right into the soil of the pot. When the flower of a “vase” has finished, that plant will not flower again and will die but should have already started new plants at the base to replace it and bloom as well.