At the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (BBG), a botanical marvel has unfolded as the elusive ‘Sapphire Tower,’ a bromeliad known scientifically as Puya alpestris, has burst into azure blooms after more than a decade of anticipation. Hailing from the Chilean Andes, where it thrives in the rarefied air above 6,000 feet, this distant cousin of the pineapple […]