Moving this topic over here as the common names may have caused me to give Happy Potter the wrong advice…see next post…

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. It’s supposed to get to 21 C here today but it doesn’t look like it! Cold and showery atm. I’ve been cleaning mulching and planting/moving/repotting things in the fernery. I got a couple small pots of ferny things at the B shop and all the label’s say is ‘ landscaping ferns’. Not good enough.
I want to know what the plant is before it overtakes, as in a scrambling hare’s foot fern ect, so I’ve been looking them up.. one I have turns out to be a king fern! Fronds that are_meters_ long!
Where to put it..

In a very large container… people use to keep them in old washing machine bowls (as in the wringer types) and when I was little, there were spectacular shows in half (across) 44 gallon drums on dedicated steel stands…

but not in the ground OK???

NO NO NO NO

WHY WHY WHY Dinetta?

The topic where it got to before I realized I may have provided the misinformation…

Oh don’t worry over misinformation D ..It’s all in the learning :) I rang and described the little fern to B shop nursery person ,who told me they are Todea Barbara King Ferns, slow growing. I could plant it in the fernery but it would eventually develop many crowns. It likes damp and dark.
So in a pot it goes.

Happy Potter said:

Oh don’t worry over misinformation D ..It’s all in the learning :) I rang and described the little fern to B shop nursery person ,who told me they are Todea Barbara King Ferns, slow growing. I could plant it in the fernery but it would eventually develop many crowns. It likes damp and dark.
So in a pot it goes.

I lost mine (Todea) It was my Dads actually, I inherited it and lost it.

King Ferns don’t sucker. Think Tree fern without the trunk. They grow from a central point and send out huge fronds.