What I learned from Ron Finley, LA’s ‘gangsta gardener’

Perhaps bromeliads hold the key to bringing peace and brotherhood to a fractured world.
After all, the two share a first syllable, and the plant is eminently suitable for sharing as it displays a growth habit where offsets or pups are produced vegetatively around the mother plant before her death. These pups could be shared with friends and even with those who are not yet friends — but could be.
I was enlightened about the plant and more during a visit with Ron Finley, who calls himself &l