Some new ferns picked up at the weekend.

(New to me, that is!)

One of them is named "Godzilla" and grows to a width of 1.8 metres!

 

Very nice.

Where did you get them from if I may ask?

 

Lovely selection you have there kindred, and a gorgeous range of colours. Looking forward to seeing them planted up

 

From http://www.shadyplants.net/

I picked them up at a show.

He'll be at Tatton Park next week.

 

"Godzilla" Japanese Painted Fern. (image from Sabellico.)

 

Lovely plants Kindred ,I should never have looked

 

Will be watching with interest, as I will be starting a fern corner as a novice

 

keep a eye for vine weevils with the painted ferns I lost all mine and found the grubs had eaten all the roots etc over the winter !!

 

Wow awesome ferns. Love the godzilla!

 

Hi, excellent link, looking at making a shady garden soon. Thanks for the info, so much to choose from on that site, still making my mind up, could take a while lol

 

I hate Vine Weevils with a passion. Don't mind slugs and snails but I hate vine weevils and blackbirds. Those two creatures cause more destruction than all the rest of nature's army combined. I've put the pots into those plastic trays for growbags and filled the trays with water to deter the evil weevils until I have time to plant the ferns.

 

I like blackbirds

 

You can come and take all mine away. Mine have evil orange eyes and when I appear in the garden they instantly scurry off and skulk under the bushes. All their crimes probably weigh on their conscience so they run and hide, e.g. like the time I planted 80 cyclamens and they pecked 77 of them into nothingness. Apparently they don't like daffodil bulbs but adore a nice juicy tulip bulb also. I have a pet name for them..........Beelzebubs.

 

Hmmmm.
I ordered some plugs from Shady Plants at the beginning of spring, and tbh I have had mixed results
2 are thriving, 2 struggling and 2 died.

 

Ferns need to be in the right soil and generally in shade and out of the wind.

If they don't like where they have been placed, they'll let you know very fast. You'll have to analyze what they didn't like.