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We can always count on a great article with incredible photos from you!
The diversity is amazing.
This is why I love the Tropiflora Cargo report...we can see broms that we've never seen before, and there are, indeed, seemingly new 'finds' every day!
I've killed my fair share of broms in general...even a couple of those gorgeous and expensive vrieseas you speak of! Some of them just plain require more sun, for more of the year, than I can provide.
I have to grow mine indoors for most of the year, and I have to say that watering the rosette indoors kills more than not. I'll occasionally mist the center of the rosette and give the soil a 'sip' of water from time to time, but I swear that every brom I've watered in the rosette has croaked...so I don't do it anymore, and I'm having much better success.
Try grouping a few small Tillandias in a wooden orchid basket. I have a couple baskets hanging in my south window that bloom every year. I mist them with distilled water every week or so (or when I remember) and give them a good soak in distilled water with dilute liquid plant food added a couple of times a year.
