Add some curb appeal to your home, or add some greenery indoors by hanging a basket filled with beautiful ferns. These popular plants are best to your garden with less amount of care. Ferns thrive in the shade, love moist soil, and add flashy foliage to any container.
Depending on the variety, ferns will trail or arch. This bit of greenery is a rewarding way to brighten any space. Read on to discover the top Three best ferns for hanging baskets or containers on your porch.
Boston Fern
The ‘Boston’ fern is sensitive to humidity and light. This fern is known as the ‘Sword Fern’ because the blue-green foliage grows upright as it matures. This fern is slow-growing and can thrive year-round indoors. Give it bright, indirect light and moist, well-draining soil. This fern can tolerate drought more than others, but it does like humidity. Outdoors, make sure to give it some shade.
Ostrich Ferns
Ostrich ferns can spread rapidly in the right growing conditions because the roots expand. They add color to a shady garden where they thrive. Give them rich, moist soil. The foliage, growing in a vase shape, looks like a fiddle or violin, giving it one of its common names, the fiddlehead ferns. This quick-growing fern has a short season, usually beginning after the final frost in spring.
Staghorn Fern
Staghorn ferns are epiphytic, meaning they grow on other things for support, making it possible to grow in wall containers. This houseplant is more challenging to grow than other ferns because of how it grows, but the distinctive, flat leaves that resemble deer antlers can reach up to three feet in length. Keep temperatures warm because this fern is native to sub-tropical regions. They like humid conditions and bright, indirect light.