• Subject: Re: More plants!
• From: &* P* L* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
• Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 21:09:36 -0500 (CDT)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy Robinson" <101g@rewrite.hort.net>
> 
> Do you not grow ferns?  I will never have enough!  Babies coming up
> but still more I need!  Well, need different species.  Lots coming
> up with forked tips.  They make me happy!

I don't know why, but ferns just don't do very well for me.  I have a few 
bunches of them, but they generally just languish.  

The best one is Athyrium angustum forma rubellum 'Lady in Red'; Athyriums in 
general do pretty well.  Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) does OK in 
sunnier spots, and autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora) is decent.  Pretty 
much everything else has died.

A big part of it is squirrels.  There's a giant pin oak in the backyard, so 
that means squirrels.  They love to eat the emerging fronds on all of the 
ferns in the spring.  :(

Chris

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