Foxtail Fern - How to Divide or Propagate?
Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
13 years ago
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Comments (26)This is a planting that I made during a bonsai workshop. We had a guest artist, and the plants she brought were really limited in variety and unsuited to either bonsai or saikei (planted landscapes). I'm pretty sure she just picked up a bunch of 3-4" pots at a big box store & separated the plants in them. I couldn't 'sit out' the workshop, so I had to plant 'something'. This is what I ended up with, and it never really interested me beyond confirming to myself that I could keep these plants healthy indoors, and that I had already posted one reduction and figured it would be interesting for you guys to see how the plant responded. This is the second major reduction the planting underwent. No root pruning on these because roots still had room in the tray. The picture was taken in early May, before the hornbeam I was layering the top off of leafed out, so oven though the plant had been putting on growth (overgrowth) the plant was about ready to start growing in earnest. I think the main reason I kept the plant around was because I had previously posted a picture of a reduction very similar to this one. All that foliage you see upthread occurred in the year subsequent to that first reduction. I really had no hopes that the planting would ever really look attractive, but I kept it because I thought I might find it useful here on the forum. I finally got rid of it after I had a few shots fired over my bow on the home front. I cant remember who I sent the ferns to - someone on this forum. I think I just tossed the China Dolls. This is what the planting above looked like 3 months later: Al...See MoreIdentify fern with split frond
Comments (18)You know, homemommy, I am beginning to wonder if I am faced with something similar to a toxic reaction here. Just kidding, of course. However, I have a large bird-nest fern which now has a split-tail frond also!! I have lately done a lot of reading about ferns trying to identify the "fish-tail" or "turkey-tail" ferns in my outdoor garden, and here I have an inside fern trying to do the same thing. I'm wondering: is this a reaction to mistreatment, either too much water, not enough nutrients, times of drought like late last summer in Alabama, or maybe the sanding dust from my husband's porch construction efforts. I've gone so far as to submit the photos to the American Fern Society forums, so time will tell if anyone there has an AHA! moment. Never realized how much I truly enjoy having ferns around, until I started totalling up the ones I have in my yard. Outdoor ferns are the ones I cannot live without. Especially the Japanese holly ferns, the Kimberly Queens, the asparagus ferns, the foxtails. And the true asparagus officinalis is almost like a vine this year. I also have a West Indies variegated holly fern that I found up in Chelmsford MA which I still have in a pot here, but will send it outdoors in about a month....See MoreDividing Ferns
Comments (8)The maiden hair ferns; my favorite; seem to be coming through the dividing. They are all coming up. They will be very small. Other then Ostrich that is the only dividing I have done. My autumn fern while getting a bigger crown I could not say there are more then one. Lady fern I would think would divide easily as it does not have a visible crown per say, just shoots. I think like the maiden hair I could cut out a shoot or two. I would love to divide my tatting fern it is also so fun. It too has a dense large crown. I would hate to lose it. I may have divided a Japanese painted fern last year come to think of it. I will have to look it up in my journal. Did I divide or jsut move? I know I could get a book but I like to hear real stories of success/failure. I manage to succeed often against a books advice!...See MoreAsparagus Fern - question on cuttings
Comments (1)Cuttings won't work but you can divide the plant to create new ones. Remove some of the stems at the base including some of the roots....See Moredrudadunat
13 years agoCarol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
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