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Plants used in today’s project:
Asplenium dimorphum x difforme (Austral Gem Fern)
Cyrtomium falcatum (Japanese Holly Fern)
Davallia fejeensis (Rabbit’s Foot Fern)
Platycerium bifurcatum (Staghorn Fern)
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Love your Japanese Holly Fern, I am adding it to my wish list. Its interesting to me how I have many happy outdoor ferns in my garden (in Minnesota of all places) that are happy and thriving yet it can be a struggle to keep them indoors! I even have a happy maiden hair outside.
I love my ferns, I really just have to keep them in a glass terrarium because I kept killing them!
struggling with my maiden hair fern. It's the only one I struggle with, but it is alive lol. Great post Nick. PeterInHalifax.
Hi Nick! Hope you are well. Been waiting for your video. Happy Weekend! ๐๐๐
i saw a huge varigated hanging fern that i knew damn well wouldnt thrive in my house
Good video, Nick. I have killed many ferns over the years and agree with you on sticking with the hardy ones. Currently, have a crocodile fern that's doing great.
Hi Nick i have trouble keeping money trees from dying do you have any advice you could share anything would be appreciated. Thank you
I have western sword ferns native here and I thought I should buy one for my yard but I literally bought the southern fern lmao and it canโt do the winters here
Do you think a stag horn fern (in a pot) needs as much water as other ferns? Maybe Iโve been under watering mine ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
โUse your brain a little bit thereโ ๐ I love you and your sass
SO good to see you again! Hope things are going well! My Kangaroo Paw Fern (thanks to you) is my favorite companion plant. What a reliable friend Fern! I am grateful you turned me on to the plant!
I have both of these in my north of the Uk garden x
Someone's growing older!
I remember your frustrating over ferns like it was yesterday!
That's great. You've become more caring and patient.
I was given a birdโs nest fern for my birthday (Aug) and I put it in a self watering pot (in case I forget about it) well itโs still struggling๐ฅบ ๐ฅน
Brilliant idea putting ferns on Leca in a cover pot. Trying that with a struggling heart fern this weekend.
I have killed so many lovely ferns. I like the tip to use glazed ceramics. I'm gonna keep trying!
Hope all is well with the move, Nick. Glad that see a new video today! Happy weekend!
An online store where I live is selling terra planters which is like a terra cotta cone on which you can grow plants and apparently ferns as well, would love to put my struggling maidenhair fern on one of those but I have no idea if those things actually work.
Ok. Hear me out. Mounted ferns UP INSIDE your skylight.
I have a staghorn and crocodile, theyโre both thriving!
So happy your back I been patiently waiting ๐๐ชด๐๐พ
Self-watering planters have been the solution to keeping my ferns alive.
Nice to see a new video as always great video thanks
Dude! I have never heard of mounted ferns but I promise you that my rabbit foot fern will be mounted as soon as I educate myself on it! Most definitely making art!
Ferns do great in direct sunlight, maidenhair can grow in full sunlight outside ๐ but the more light you give them the faster they grow and they'll need even more water. I can't imagine growing Boston in full light in a regular pot. When I was growing my Boston in a full giant west window with 5+ h of direct sunlight I had it standing in a gallon bowl of water which I had to refill weekly. It was in a 6 inch pot and was going through a gallon of water a week, the bowl would get bone dry. It did great btw ๐ I had to give it up, it was too big. Ferns looove light and water. I wouldn't leave any hardy fern standing in water, those can actually rot. But any fluffy thin leaved ones like Boston, Maidenhair, Silver dollar (my favorite! really check it out!), Button, Japanese painted, Autumn or Cotton Candy do great just standing in water with plenty of light.
Your mounted fern is loving it!!! Looks so happy๐ค๐ฑ๐
Nice video, I also realized that they need much more light than we thought. I keep mine on a north facing window and they are lovely ๐๐๐ค
I'm wondering if people are over-watering their Boston and Maidenhair ferns. I live in the desert southwest (Lake Powell, AZ) and I only water them maybe once a week, unless they're outdoors on my NW patio – where they spend the Summer (daily then, 'cuz it's over 100F every day and there's no roof over it). We even have Maidenhair ferns growing wild here in protected areas of Glen Canyon. The do love A LOT of light, I'd even say they prefer an hour or two of direct sunrise/sunset sunlight. My Boston really went downhill when I moved from Las Vegas, NV (where it was on my semi-shaded South Facing patio) to AZ where I put it in a shaded North window, it's much happier now near my West window or on my patio where it gets early evening sun. I've tried mounted ferns indoors, but they dry out way too fast with our low humidity – felt like I was having to water those almost twice a day, so my Rabbit's Foot is back in a plastic nursery pot and thriving there.
How often do you water the mounted rabbit foot? And how do you feel about wicking the ferns or using moisture control potting mix?
Great video Nick, but where was sweet pea???
Ferns are beautiful ,but I gave up on them๐
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First of all Nick, I just LOVE your shirt. Lastly, I just LOVE your shirt ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
I can appreciate the need to attract sponsorships, but this was just an infomercial. Slightly disappointed on this one Nick.
I got my first fern a few months back, a blue star fern fo $5 at my local grocery store. But it on a shelf directly in my kitchen window and it's doubled in size. Love her so much I dnt let anyone touch her ๐คฃ scared they will rub off her colour or something ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฆ
Ohmygosh! I love this video so much! I have an ant fern and rabbits foot fern and I really want to mount them… but I'm scared ๐ฑ
I love my rabbit foot ferns! I never thought of mounting them…thanks for the idea. Great video.
As always some great tips and advice. Thank you for sharing. It was different to see a video from you, and not from your old kitchenโฆ great to see you again!