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Posted: Feb/14/2009 7:12 AM PST
I need tips on keeping a maidenhair fern alive. My mother had one for years and it was gorgeous. I inherited it and no matter what I did, it started dying. After it's death, I tried a couple of times with new ones and the same outcome. I have just bought one (maybe for the last time) and I desperately want it to live! Any advice? 
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Posted: Feb/14/2009 8:57 AM PST
There seems to be a lot of differing results on this beautiful plant. These are a simple steps to take. Good luck with your new Maidenhair. LIGHT: Expose to medium (bright indirect) light. Tolerates low light. Keep out of full sun. WATER: Allow soil surface to dry out between thorough waterings. Never allow soil around roots to dry out. Mist daily with tepid water. Raise humidity as high as possible. TEMPERATURE: Maintain temperatures of no higher than low 70s during the day and into 50s at night for best growth. Tolerates average temperatures. Avoid hot and cold drafts. |
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Posted: Feb/14/2009 7:29 PM PST
Thanks yardgranny! I'm going to try to avoid a funeral for this maidenhair. |
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Posted: Feb/15/2009 2:24 AM PST
Oh, I think that they are beautiful, but I've never had one. Keep us posted. Good luck. We don't want any funerals. |
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Posted: Feb/21/2009 3:07 PM PST
 I had trouble keeping maidenhair ferns alive in my house also so I stuck them in the outside garden, now they multiply and come back year after year. I love them.
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Posted: Feb/22/2009 8:23 AM PST
Welcome, inseaon. We're glad that you have joined Garden Guides. I don't have any ferns much, due to the fact I thought that they were a houseplant. I do have a fern that we called "Aunt Winnie's Mountain Fern." It's a vining or twining fern. It's lovely and it stay outside and goes rampant, growing off the stakes that I have especially for them and twining in the serissa and nandina. Last year when I was making the New Daffodil bed, I acquired a little tiny fern amongst the plants. I put it in a pot, and I haven't thought more about it since I did no gardening last summer. I'll have to check to see if it survived the winter. I'm excited to know that they will do nicely outside. |
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Posted: Feb/22/2009 8:49 AM PST
There are a number of evergreen ferns and they just take care of themselves. Of course that is why I like them. I do have one inside right now that is a Macho fern, or at least that is what a friend told me. It does not shed like that Boston Fern. I just let those things freeze out one year. What a mess they are. There is a Cinnamon Fern at the driveway side of my house. And it did great this past year. |
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Posted: Feb/22/2009 9:54 PM PST
Sounds beautiful! Do you have a picture? |
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Posted: Jul/23/2009 8:54 PM PST
maiden hair ferns their are meny kinds. i know about some of them. bostons are very easy to grow, but they die back in the fall and come back in spring. dose yours have black stems with a fanlike leafstile that are about 2 & 1/2 feet tall on a mature plant. these ferns grow wild in oregon especially on creeks. i have 34 that have seeded themselfs along the creek banks. they do not like a lot of sun want mostly shade but need some light, not a real dark shade. we get to o degree sometimes and 100 degree sometime but mostly 30 to 90 degrees. i live in a forest and found some wild boston ferns in the woods that have greenstems and 3 point leaves one to a stem. they are both a boston fern but have different first names which i cant remember. |
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