New fern introductions from Fibrex Nurseries

摘要

Ferns have been a large part of our working lives for more than 30 years. We would therefore hope that we have got to grips with growing them. We know when and how to collect spore and get good results from spore sowings. We are not afraid to divide rare ferns, in fact it's one of our favourite jobs. Producing good quality plants for resale is no problem and we can usually persuade people to buy them. What does frustrate us is the difficulty to produce new fern cultivars. At our family nursery, colleagues and I grow Pelargonium and Hedera alongside ferns. Rarely a year goes by when there are no new varieties either of our own or someone elses to add to our lists, but in thirty years we have only managed two new distinct cultivars of ferns, plus four that could be called re-introductions and one new one from someone else