Re: Fern question
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- Subject: Re: Fern question
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 05:15:51 -0400
I don't know this child, but it sounds like a first cousin of hay-scented
fern (Dennstaedtia punctiloba)...even looks like it from your scan. If
it's like that, the only thing you can do is go on a rhizome hunting
expedition and dig them up. Hay-scented rhizomes are very close to the
soil surface; not deep at all and black, so they aren't easy to see, but
they branch and travel all over the place. Maybe your fern is different,
but digging is the only way to really get rid of hay-scented. I do go
around and simply pull the fronds when they start to get too thick in
spots. Helps for a while; they grow back, but not overnight....make nice
compost.
Sounds like you will have some fun:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:02 AM
>
> > > I have a problem with ferns in my backyard... They're everywhere!
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions for containing them?
> >
> > Do you know what kind they are? (and where one gets them?)
>
> Flipping through my fern book, it looks like Gymnocarpium robertianum
> is probably the culprit.
>
> I've put a leaf scan up at
>
> http://www.mallorn.com/~lindsey/horticulture/gymro10.jpg
>
> These ferns are extremely horizontal. A single stalk comes up, then
seems
> to make a right angle with lots of leaves hanging off parallel to the
> ground. It's like an umbrella, which is why it's so hard on the
perennials
> that are overshadowed.
>
> Chris
>
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