The garden fern is magnificent ornamental plant which can be grown up on the seasonal dacha. Today in the nature there are more than 200 types, but and easy in cultivation only some of them will be off-the-shelf.
Types of garden ferns
Adiantum stopovidny – fern with leaves, carved, flavovirent, roundish in form. Leaves reach up to 30 cm in height and grow horizontally, laying down at each other, forming tiers.
Kochedyzhnik is fern which has set of subspecies. Their main feature consists in variety of color gamma and unusual form of leaves (triangular, sectioned, lantsetny or plumose).
Listovik Japanese – this grade of fern is not similar to all others. Its leaves of dark green color, integral and dense, a little wavy at the edges, collected in one socket. The myriapod ordinary – fern is formed under small soil layer or in moss thickets. This look has curative properties and is used in traditional medicine as bile-expelling means. Strausnik ordinary – the most often found grade of ferns. In height can reach up to 1.5 m. Leaves of light green color, carved, grow in the vertical direction. Orlyak ordinary – fern which is not whimsical in leaving breeds in the vegetative and sporous way, in height reaches up to 1 m, leaves have the deltoid form, color of leaves can change from light to dark green.
Reproduction, landing and leaving
It is possible to make multiple copies ferns division of adult bush, for this purpose it is necessary to dig out bush of the earth and to separate from it several parts together with rhizome. It is better to separate hands and to watch to damaging roots. It is possible to apply one more way of reproduction is cultivation of seedling of fern from dispute. For this purpose it is necessary to prepare peat pots and to fill them with the earth with addition of bird's dung. To spread out disputes over pots, it is abundant to water from spray and to cover with film. It is necessary to plant seedling or allotment in the spring to the open ground, at continuous temperature not lower than 15 wasps. The place for fern should be chosen as shady and damp, without drafts. Then to dig out holes at distance from 70-100 cm, on bottom to lay out drainage from large haydite, further to fill up mix of sand, the earth and peat in the ratio 1:2:2, it is good to water everything and after that to place fern seedling together with earth lump in which it grew. To powder everything with the earth and to stamp a little. Care for ferns consists in timely watering and spraying. And also each 2-3 years plant need to be updated by means of division of bush. For the winter the fern can be covered with foliage, peat or ukryvny material. This plant is very resistant to wreckers and diseases.