Green Fern Mini

How to grow Green Fern Mini

Plant Description: Green Fern Mini makes an excellent houseplant and stands up well to room conditions if kept moist. Its dense green foliage with unique shapes makes it very attractive. Green Fern Mini is ideally suited for growing in hanging baskets because of its drooping nature and miniature foliage. It can be cultivated in a shade garden, pots for indoor decoration, green walls and can be used in decorating roof & terrace gardens, table tops, bottle garden, terrarium, and window gardens.

Botanical Name: Nephrolepis exaltata.

Plant type: Foliage pattern plant, ground cover plant, hanging basket plant.

Deciduous/Evergreen: Evergreen.

Growth Habit: Low growing, small perennial herbs.

Growth Rate: Green Fern Mini grows rapidly under favourable conditions.

Average Landscape Size: For ground covers, Green Fern Mini can be planted at 2x2 ft spacing.

Special Features: Air purifying plant, versatile use plant.

How to care for Green Fern Mini

Soil: The soil should be light, porous, well-drained with sufficient lime.

Pot Size: Regular pot with a diameter of 8 inches (20 cm). Oversized pots should never be used & size of pots should be just enough to hold the shallow fern roots.

Potting/Transplanting: The container selected must have proper drainage holes. To prevent water logging, cover the drainage holes with broken pieces of earthen pots or brick pieces before putting the soil. Transplant the Fern sapling in a pot along with root-ball of original soil. Carefully place the plant in the middle of the pot & cover the roots completely with remaining soil.

Repotting: Repot Green Fern Mini once a year, or only if the fern has densely covered the whole pot. In the case of repotting, only the next size pot (2-3 cm more in diameter) should be used.

Sunlight: Green Fern Mini dislikes bright sunshine. It is best grown in indoor shade, or if grown outdoors, placed it the shade or indirect sunlight.

Water: Green Fern Mini prefers frequent light watering in the form of a shower. Over watering along with poor drainage may result in the fern to wither away.

Fertiliser: Add rich compost in the soil during potting. The addition of leaf mould can be done twice a year.

Temperature: Ideal room temperature - 20 to 30 degree Celsius.

Humidity: Green Fern Mini prefers conditions with high humidity. When grown indoors it needs moist, fresh air around the foliage.

Pruning: Remove dry, dead leaves with the help of scissors.

Propagation: This fern grows rapidly and multiplies quickly. It propagates by sowing of spores in shallow pots & pans. But the easiest & most common method of Green Fern Mini propagation is by the division of clump or by the division of creeping rhizome/runners.

Companion Plants: Syngonium, Aralia, Dieffenbachia, Philodendron, Money Plant.