Sunday, November 25, 2007

Fern Shelf


Well I took apart a shelf on the "free table" at school and salvaged the boards. So, here is my fabulous dorky fern shelf. I bought several at botanic garden sales, and the really big one is from the supermarket. They have been getting too much sun now that the sun angle stays low throughout the day, and the big one got fried when I tried to move them, but they'll do better now. They'll be a little higher too.

Luckily frost hasn't been a concern yet. The Staghorn fern (epiphyte on left, attached to board) should probably come inside if we got a frost, as well as the bird's nest fern in the middle. The other haggard-looking one in the middle is the native Woodwardia fimbriata. Supposedly it gets up to 6 feet tall in the woods up north, and I think should be somewhat frost-hardy. I'll need to repot to get it that big, of course. We'll just see if I can keep it alive.
The african violet on the right is just hanging out- obviously not a fern.

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