Growing Ferns: The most versatile garden plants

Growing Ferns: The most versatile garden plants

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Ferns are extremely handsome because of their elegant leaves and lovely range of colors. They are widely useful for different purposes in a garden. These evergreen, non-flowering shrubs are most popular houseplants in the world.
These decorative, ornamental plants look best when planted in the following ways:
1. Indoor pots: Ferns grow well in different sized pots, pans & containers. Pots can be earthen, terracotta, plastic or ornamental ceramic ones.
Indoor pots
2. Hanging baskets: Ferns are perfect basket plants for indoors & outdoors. Naturally hanging Staghorn ferns are also unique.
Fern Plant in Hanging basket
3. Window boxes: Ferns are used as filler plants in beautiful window boxes.
Fern plant
4. Terrariums: Small ferns look beautiful in terrariums, bottle gardens.
Fern garden
5. Dish garden: Shallow rooted ferns can be quickly grown in flat containers to make Miniature gardens, tray landscapes.
Dish Garden with ferns.
6. Flower arrangements: Fern leaves are popularly used in preparing various flower arrangements like wedding bouquets, button holes, vase & table decoration.
grenn fern
7. Ground cover: In outdoor landscaping, ferns are used as groundcover plants under tree shades.
fern garden
8. Rock garden: Ferns make excellent filler plants in garden rockeries.
fern garden
9. Green-walls: Ferns are very much suitable plants for indoor green walls, bio-walls & vertical wall gardens.
Greenwall with fern plant
10. Fern garden: Entire landscape garden can be developed by fern theme. Such garden is moist, evergreen & gives the ambiance of a rainforest floor.
green fern
Check out our collection of ferns: Golden fern, Fern Emina, Green fern mini.