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Showing posts with label care of ferns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label care of ferns. Show all posts

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Growing Ferns Can Be Easy



Gardening from Gracious Cottage:
Ferns...For years I couldn't grow them but I guess I finally got the conditions optimal, and have a system figured out. The ferns are by the back door in an area that has some shade and protection from the heat. The fern in the first photo, I have had for years, I just clip it down when it starts to get brown & leggy. I water it daily but not on the leaves. It goes and goes. The other one (more unusual) I got at the Carlsbad Street Fair a couple of years ago. I don't clip it but it responds in like manner. I put in fertilizer sticks a few times a year. The greenery softens the back landing & they are good greeters every time you go in and out. Before Ferns were difficult, now they are easy. (click to enlarge photos)