RE: Maidenhair fern
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- Subject: RE: Maidenhair fern
- From: D* B* T*
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:52:09 -0600
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No, I think they've all been 3 1/2-5" pots, some looking quite healthy. /:|
I'm trying to get a copy of the paper on peat beds that Doug Green
referenced by Jim McClement(?). It also could be that they need far more
water than I've supplied, esp in the 2-3rd year at my house. Still, if they
were easy....(I'd have to say the same for the Royal Fern. I know they like
an overabundance of water and they certainly don't get THAT here--so they
never survive either....:-(( )
Not to say that I'm Typhoid Mary with the ferns! But perhaps some are more
FAR more forgiving as time goes on than others.
Diann
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com
[o*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of GeneBush
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 6:32 PM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Maidenhair fern
Hello Diann,
OK...now you have my curiosity motor running. One question. The
Maidenhair
ferns you have planted and lost in the past. Any of them from a 5 pint pot,
multiple rhizomes and full root systems to spread out into the surrounding
soil?
Only thing left that I can think of..... I have seen these for sale so often
as a
dried out rhizome with scraggly remains of dried root system. Received a few
myself from wholesalers... and returned them for credit.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Diann Barbee Thoma <dthoma@teleologic.net>
Subject: RE: Maidenhair fern
> Well, Gene, I guess you didn't struggle and then prevail with the plant so
> you have no insight to help others who find this a favorite plant but
> haven't succeeded in getting it to thrive. I've tried about 8 plants from
4
> different sources over the last 4 years, including different locations and
> close attention to its preferred soil.
>
> So--good for you and still too bad for us!
>
> Diann
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