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Some Ferns You Can Grow This article was provided by The Fern Society of Victoria About Us | Establishing A Fernery | Repotting Ferns | Contact Us MAIDENHAIR FERNS Most of the lovely Maidenhair ferns you buy in the nursery or supermarket are not successful in the ground. If you want to grow ferns in the ground, you would be well advised to pick some of our hardy, native varieties. There are quite a few of them, four in Victoria alone. The most common, Adiantum aethiopicum or Common maidenhair, spreads quite rapidly from creeping rhizomes and will do well in the ground. Another is Adiantum formosum, Black stem or Giant maidenhair, which is much bigger than the common maidenhair and will get fronds as much as a metre long. (Formosum means 'beautiful'.) Another tough one, which comes up with reddish fronds, is Adiantum hispidu-lum. A non-native which is quite similar to it is Adianturn pubescens. It does quite well in the ground, too. Many of the exotic Maidenhairs need to grow in a glasshousc, sunr-oom or possibly indoors. somewhere protected from the winter weather. They don't mind the cold but can't stand being both cold and wet for long. "ISLAND BEAUTY" This is cross between the Hen and Chickens fern and Aspleniurn surrogatum from Lord Howe Island. Fairly freelyavailable from nurseries, it has inherited its parents' hardy nature but is a bit more vigorous and grows more rapidly. It grows easily indoors, as an indoor potplant or in the fernery. It produces plantlets on the fronds like its parent, the Hen and Chickens fern. CHEILANTHES AND NOTHOLAENA - SUN LOVERS. There are a few ferns that will grow in full sun, and they are called XEROPHYTIC ferns. They usually grow in rocky situations in deserts or semi-deserts. In the dry season he fronds will dry. out and curl up, looking quite dead but with the first few drops of rain they rehydrate and open out again. They are characteristically covered with tiny hairs, which act to prevent moisture loss. There are a couple of silver Elk ferns which are similarly hairy, and these also grow in exposed, sunny spots. All the Cheilanthes genus are xerophytic and will be quite successful in dryish, rocky, sunny, exposed parts of your garden. Notholaenas are the same. |