Matteuccia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern) // BOLD,🌟bright green, NATIVE, Easy to Grow Fern
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- G! BOLD! BEAUTIFUL! Here's a NATIVE fern that is EASY to GROW and Very EASY to LOOK AFTER, and one that puts on a TERRIFIC ❗display all season long.
Here at Overdevest Nurseries we grow many handsome ferns, and this marvelous "Ostrich Fern" is truly impressive and seldom fails to please! Join David on a windy day in one of our greenhouses and let him tell you all about it and why we think so much of it.
This Hand Picked For You ® certified variety is clump forming, with WONDERFUL bright green columns of foliage, and if you have a shady area and are looking for an eye-catching, graceful addition to your garden, consider this our NATIVE Ostrich Fern.
Features:
✔️ Boldly impressive as an accent and stunning in mass plantings
⭐ Grows 3-5' tall
🍃 Foliage plant for summer interest
👍 Open plumes resemble ostrich feathers
💚 Very hardy
👌 Native
🦌 Deer Resistant
👍 Hand Picked For You® certified variety*
More at: Grown By Overdevest: www.grownbyove...
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* Matteuccia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern) is part of Handpicked For You Plants® program. A certification program that awards its valued Trustmark to top performing plants.
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When I got these, it always rained. That’s why I started wanting to plant things. If someone told me two years ago that I would HAVE to manually water them to keep them alive, I would have said they were crazy....but here I am. Every evening with the hose....even on my damp north side of my house.
If it is of any help, I have used some of those drip bags (the ones with small holes in the base that you fill with water and allow to slowly seep into the area near your plants). Also (when planting), I habitually create shallow depressions around my newly planted items to make a little reservoir so that I only have to water (even in dry periods) once or (at most) twice a week, and of course, for larger areas I try to automate the watering with sprinklers, and it is also worth considering supplementing the mulch layer too.
@@OverdevestNurseries thNk you. I didn’t see any white in the roots but I stil transplanted into the ground north side of my house near astilbe, just in case there’s something viable I can’t see. I thought it died last year too and it came back in the spring so never know.
I did not get these from Overdevest, just so everyone knows. These were from an online bare root order.
Your advice is very helpful! I’ll look into those bags you mentioned. 🌸
Get a drip system
@SteveHamara The constant rain bombs are back again, but it will be good to prepare ahead of time for any droughty years that may be ahead.
Great video! Thanks for the information.
You are very welcome, we are pleased to hear you found our efforts helpful!
Prefect plants to do a hedge, down by the woody area on each side of the property lines. Are they deciduous or evergreens? Thank you David.
They are herbaceous which means they go dormant in winter. They do best in humus rich, moist (but not soaking wet) soils, so be sure to incorporate plenty of organic matter when planting them and a deep mulch will help to keep them going well through any prolonged dry, summer periods too.
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@OverdevestNurseries thank you very much for additional information, appreciate it as always. I've been a fan of your channel and subscribed immediately a few years back. The only unfortunate thing is that I don't live local, I don't think Ohio vendors/nurseries are getting plants from your company. But at least I can try to find the plants within local after watching your videos. Thank you again David!
I’m on my second one now. It’s in a moisture retentive soil, gets some sun but a lot of shade, it has thriving Hostas around it and yet it is almost dead! We are getting discouraged!
Sounds like time for intensive care..... Mulch (if you haven't already) and some supplemental watering especially during any prolonged summer periods. Might also be good to get a little extra consultation with the experts at your garden center, they know all about top notch quality plants, your local conditions and be able to help you select the right spot. One final observation we've noticed over the years and that is that sometimes, ferns will languish a bit during the first year, taking time to settle in and adjust to the new surroundings. Then the following spring they will take off.
But it would be good just to run your situation by the folk at you garden centers anyway - a little extra friendly advice and guidance is always helpful.
Does anyone know what size container an ostrich fern requires (full size)? I keep seeing conflicting info. Some people say fern roots are shallow and not to choose pots that are over 6” deep, but others say ostrich ferns need tons of space. I do realize you can keep them from spreading since they spread via rhizomes, but I don’t know what size container is best to keep it in. Hoping someone has one in a container that can help guide me…
Also please no replies claiming they can’t be grown in containers or don’t do well in containers. Plenty of official plant and gardening sites say they do just fine in containers, I just can’t find any info on the freaking size
You could start out with any of the commercially available containers that our garden centers would have: grownbyoverdevest.com/retail-locator/ something that would be about 18"- 2' diameter by about the same deep. Then as your clumps grow, become larger and more and more impressive, you can up-pot them in early spring to larger sizes including eventually to something like a half barrel. Just make sure all the containers have drainage holes in the base. As you have seen in the video, all our plants are grown in containers and they are incredibly beautiful, so it should be fun to have them get larger and larger. You don't need to worry about them spreading that just adds to the impressiveness, but if you want to retain the "shuttlecock" look - you can remove any of the babies with a knife.