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Post by revmichael on Jul 12, 2007 8:05:56 GMT
This morning my fern garden resembled an Australian rain forest. My Dicksonia antarctica was look very much at home in our rain. This year she has eleven fronds, instead of the usual eight.  Do others grow these tree ferns? |
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Post by ivy noidea on Jul 12, 2007 8:27:59 GMT
This morning my fern garden resembled an Australian rain forest. My Dicksonia antarctica was look very much at home in our rain. This year she has eleven fronds, instead of the usual eight.Do others grow these tree ferns? Counting things again, Michael? |
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Post by revmichael on Jul 12, 2007 8:32:34 GMT
This morning my fern garden resembled an Australian rain forest. My Dicksonia antarctica was look very much at home in our rain. This year she has eleven fronds, instead of the usual eight.Do others grow these tree ferns? Counting things again, Michael? Yes, I've always been fascinated with that ever since I heard a letter read out by dear old Jack Warner (in the early 1940s) to one of the boys at the front, fighting for Britain. It said, 'You won't recognise young Willy. Since you've been away he's grown another foot.' |
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Post by Peek on Jul 12, 2007 9:56:32 GMT
That looks so lush Rev. , we have a fern in a pot ( sorry, haven't a clue what it's called !), but I daren't go near it as I'm allergic to the nasty spores it has.
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Post by revmichael on Jul 12, 2007 11:09:53 GMT
That looks so lush Rev. , we have a fern in a pot ( sorry, haven't a clue what it's called !), but I daren't go near it as I'm allergic to the nasty spores it has. This one is actually in a pot ( a very large one) but I'm sure it's split its sides by now. The surrounding ferns cover up the pot now (except in the winter). |
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Post by Fi on Jul 12, 2007 12:54:10 GMT
This morning my fern garden resembled an Australian rain forest. My Dicksonia antarctica was look very much at home in our rain. This year she has eleven fronds, instead of the usual eight. Do others grow these tree ferns? |
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Post by revmichael on Jul 12, 2007 13:01:23 GMT
This morning my fern garden resembled an Australian rain forest. My Dicksonia antarctica was look very much at home in our rain. This year she has eleven fronds, instead of the usual eight. Do others grow these tree ferns? We are fortunate in having quite mild weather in Berkshire. However, I did plant it in a pot (so that I could move it to the greenhouse in the winter) and placed it quite close the house - where it would be warmer. I didn't move it to the greenhouse the first winter - and it survived, so I've never moved it since. This year it stayed green and healthy until February when the snow caused it to blacken and wither. I then cut off the fronts and later in the spring new ones started to unfold from the middle of the plant. Every autumn I stuff dead fern fronts down the centre of it, and it seems to keep it frost free. I've had it for nine years- in the same place. |
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Post by sarah on Jul 12, 2007 21:28:28 GMT
what a beauty Rev,
i'm slightly jeoulous!
x
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Post by revmichael on Jul 13, 2007 6:51:54 GMT
what a beauty Rev, i'm slightly jeoulous! x All I did was to put it in a pot and place it where it is now. In dry weather I pour water (this hasn't taken much of my time this year). Otherwise I just cut off the old fronds when they die. |
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Post by smiffy on Jul 13, 2007 10:33:24 GMT
*whistles quietly*
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Post by territalks on Jul 13, 2007 13:54:07 GMT
 What a beautiful Fern Rev Mike I have one in a pot, not as lovely as yours though! Love TT xxxx
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Post by revmichael on Jul 13, 2007 20:58:07 GMT
I know - you've got them growing wild around you. My son, when he lived in Rotorua bought them for 2$ each. This one cost me £60 some years ago, and it was half price. |
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Post by smiffy on Jul 16, 2007 5:27:48 GMT
Actually Rev, I have just looked, and mine is a different variety to yours! Mine I would have grown as a house plant in England! Still looks OK though!
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Post by revmichael on Jul 16, 2007 17:07:17 GMT
Actually Rev, I have just looked, and mine is a different variety to yours! Mine I would have grown as a house plant in England! Still looks OK though! So, you mean that Adelade isn't right slap bang in the middle of a rain forest! |
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