Time for a mystery fern here.
This was one I grabbed from the Burncoose Nurseries stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. Basically because it looked pretty. And it does. It's very delicate, very feathery, the fronds unfurl with a white fuzz on them. And it seems to enjoy living behind my potatoes.
Haven't a scoobies what it is though. It looks a little bit like my poly-poly (Polystichum polyblepharum), but the poly-poly is far more robust than this chap. Plus, mystery fern does something that the poly-poly hasn't (at least so far):
As ferns are not well known for their side shoots, or their ability to propagate from a frond, these are obviously young epiphytic plants, yes? Awesome stuff - use Mummy as a substrate. When I potted it up, there were a couple of nice big young plants, so I hacked them off and had them in a saucer of water, pending me figuring out what the heck to do with them (the photo below is blurry, you don't need your eyes tested - well maybe you do, but only if everything else is blurry too).
I don't know that I've progressed much further, other than to fill the saucer with a leftover bit of moss, in the hope that the young plants will contemplate a root system so I can propagate them properly and then distribute them at forum meets in return for much rarer stuff. Clearly I have a lot to learn about fern cultivation. And let's not even think about spores yet!
This was one I grabbed from the Burncoose Nurseries stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. Basically because it looked pretty. And it does. It's very delicate, very feathery, the fronds unfurl with a white fuzz on them. And it seems to enjoy living behind my potatoes.
Haven't a scoobies what it is though. It looks a little bit like my poly-poly (Polystichum polyblepharum), but the poly-poly is far more robust than this chap. Plus, mystery fern does something that the poly-poly hasn't (at least so far):
As ferns are not well known for their side shoots, or their ability to propagate from a frond, these are obviously young epiphytic plants, yes? Awesome stuff - use Mummy as a substrate. When I potted it up, there were a couple of nice big young plants, so I hacked them off and had them in a saucer of water, pending me figuring out what the heck to do with them (the photo below is blurry, you don't need your eyes tested - well maybe you do, but only if everything else is blurry too).
I don't know that I've progressed much further, other than to fill the saucer with a leftover bit of moss, in the hope that the young plants will contemplate a root system so I can propagate them properly and then distribute them at forum meets in return for much rarer stuff. Clearly I have a lot to learn about fern cultivation. And let's not even think about spores yet!
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