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Re: [PRIMROSES] FERNS

>heh heh heh....I've got something for you.....I don't have descriptions
>for you, but they'll come from other members.  From what I've seen in
>every nursery I've ever visited, we have the best quality for the least
>price.  We GROW our own ferns, we don't buy them all ready to sell.
>That's the difference!

Diane, and do you grow them from spores? Judith Jones does, and also
provides liners so that nurseries can grow their own, from her starts.
Another good nursery in the area is Sue Olson's 'Foliage Gardens'. Sue has
helped organize the Hardy Fern Foundation with it's main test garden at the
Rhododendron Species Foundation site near SeaTac. Can't get Judith to go on
line, but Sue has access. The Hardy Fern Foundation has a web site, and
there is a FERNET group that you can subscribe to at
macjordomo@koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu ; just write subscribe FERNET and your
name in the body of the letter. Mail comes as:
fernet@koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu>
Incidentally, it doesn't take 2 years to find out if they are going to live
or not. Depends on what the species is, and how fresh the spores, but if
they haven't appeared in 3 months, they are not at all likely to. Most
directions for starting them are so complex that it is a wonder that they
are among our oldest plants, and still going strong! In addition, a really
good book is John Mickel's 'Ferns for American Gardens'. Comes in paperback
now, so it is somewhere around $20.00. John has been fern curator at the
New York Botanical Garden. He is a rarity, in that he really knows the
technical end, but more than that, he is a real gardener, and knows what
will grow, and how to grow it..... Nancy
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