favorite
favorite
hide
unhide
flag

Posted

print

Ostrich Ferns - 5 for $20 - $5 (Roseville)

I am selling these as fresh dug and 5 plants for $20. This is a great option for naturalizing and small mass plantings.

The Ostrich Fern is a grand, native plant from the Eastern American woodlands. Unfurling in a fiddlehead shape, it gets its name from the open plumes that resemble ostrich feathers. Like most ferns, this one prefers a cool, moist spot and will spread and thrive in any wet, shady area of the garden. A notably graceful plant. (Matteuccia struthiopteris).

The Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a gorgeous deciduous fern that gets its name from its massive, tall, fertile fronds that resemble ostrich plumes. The Ostrich Fern can grow up to six feet tall and three feet wide, so be sure to plant this ground cover somewhere with space to roam. The ideal growing conditions are moist, cool soil, so you will often find them near ponds and streams. These popular shade perennials are cold-hardy, deer resistant, moisture tolerant, pest resistant, and rabbit resistant.

In early spring, curly green fronds emerge and unfurl into the famously dramatic green. At maturity, the Ostrich fern can reach up to 6 feet wide, spreading by underground rhizomes. Once peak summer has passed, the front starts to wild, turning dark brown and eventually losing their leaflets by winter when they become dormant.

The Ostrich Ferns stand vertically from a crown and then send out lateral stolons or horizontal plant stems, which form new crowns. The front is long and tapers down to the base of the plant. It also tapers to the outside tip and resembles plumes, thus giving the plant its name. It usually grows between 2 and 3 feet tall but can grow to 5 feet tall.

One of the lushest and most beautiful plants, the plant gets its name from the distinctive plume of leaves resembling bright green spray Struthio camelus tail feathers.

The leaves of this plant usually grow to be about three feet long and curve gracefully at the tips, and the plant itself is nearly equally broad. The new leaves are called fiddleheads since their shape is similar to that of a violin stem.

*Deer resistant

* tolerates heavy shade

*fast growing

* Edible fiddleheads

post id: 7873059556

posted:

best of [?]

loading
reading
writing
saving
searching