Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press
By Andrew Messinger
I enjoy teaching, and most of all I enjoy teaching new gardeners all about horticulture.
Recently, I asked a beginning class of home gardeners to tell me two things that came to mind when they thought about ferns. In almost every case, their first associations were with forests and shade.
Theirs was probably a similar reaction to what most of us have when we consider these unique plants, but there are also ferns that grow in full sun, in sandy soil, from between crevices in rocks, climbing up tree trunks for 10 feet (unless you have the hardy Asian variety that grows up to 40 feet) and floating on the top of ponds. In some parts of the world, there are even tree ferns that can be 30 feet tall. Read more>
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