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Advantages: Easy To Grow Disadvantages: Do Not Flower
The name Fern applies to over 20,000 different species of Plant that all belong to the Botanical Genus of Pteridophyta. They are grown widely in the UK and some species also grow wild but the commonest varieties are normally grown either indoors or outdoors to add foliage to other areas.
I have a fern on my Kitchen Windowsill that I acquired as a little baby from a friend last year. I have no idea what type of Fern it is but it must be one of the common indoor varieties because I have seen this same Plant in several Garden Centres recently. Despite my eagerness to find out the true identity of my Plant this has so far eluded me. Every time that I stumble upon one it is simply labelled "Fern."
The term Pteridophytes is often used to describe any type of seedless Vascular Plant so this term has become synonymous with Ferns ...
micksheff 27.03.2007
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Advantages: Great for shady places Disadvantages: Keep well watered or they suffer
We've got a shady area in our back garden where nothing will grow. It faces north, and so it never gets any sun, and it's cold there even in summer. Everything we plant is ok for a couple of weeks, then starts to grow long and lanky, trying to get some light, then it dies. I'd never considered ferns, they're boring, aren't they? Anyway, I was fed up of seeing bare ground so I bit the bullet and got 3 assorted ferns from the local nursery, and planted them. The ferns I bought were: Dryopteris filix-mas, (Male fern), Asplenium trichomanes (Maidenhair spleenwort) and Polypodium glycyrrhiza (Liquorice fern). They were £3.99 each, in 3litre pots. They were a nice size and looked established as soon as I'd planted them, in varying green, and different leaf shapes and sizes. It really brightened up the shady spot, and what's more, 12 ...
xandie1 26.06.2004
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Advantages: magical storyline, lovely characters Disadvantages: flimsy cover, pictures not in colour inside the book
COST: £3.99
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHED: may 2005
PLACE OF PURCHASE: Waterstones
PUBLISHERS: Orchard books
AUTHOR: Daisy Meadows
PAGES: 80
Fourth book in the Rainbow Magic series, fern the green fairy. Kirsty and Rachels collection of fairies is growing and as the numbers increase so so the number of problems they are encountering. This installment is no disappointment, the adventure continues as yet another delightful fairy is added to the characters list.
Cover:
Argh, horrid paperback which soon creases and looks extremely tatty - making one wish I had invested in some sticky back plastic so I don't feel all grubby when I pick the manky things up and put them back in the bookshelf.
Story:
Rainbow magic series tells the tales of Fairyland which is home to seven colorful sisters. Together, they are the Rainbow Fairies ...
