5 Types Of Fern Plants You Must Know!

In this video, learn about the 5 types of fern plants we like best.

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As a service to our audience, we try to keep videos shorter than 30 minutes. Because of this, although we only mention 5 types of fern plants we like best, there are more which we'll be covering in a later video.

Plants covered here include the ever popular boston fern and how to care for this beautiful fern, as well as how to care for ferns in general.

In addition, one of our favorites that we always include in our landscape is the Kimberly Queen fern. Most important, we compare the kimberly queen fern to the boston fern - as many people will confuse the two. However, there is one major difference that will be obvious once you're made aware.

Plus, 3 other ferns that are always present in our landscape.

If you haven't guessed, we love, love ferns and, because there are so many varieties, we never run short of plants or ideas to spruce up our gardens.

[patriciateller]

Art mentioned that his grandmother poured some of her tea on ferns. I put spent tea leaves and teabags into my compost (also coffee grounds. Intuitively this seems like a good idea because tea is a plant. Brewed tea contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, so using leftover tea is a mild fertilizer for plants. I drink all kinds of tea (black, green, white) of which the spent leaves go into compost and I will continue to do that, but I will also save some of the brewed tea for the watering can in future. Same goes for my herbal brews. Enjoyed your video.

[fernleaf]

Ostrich fern gets its name from the shape of the frond that looks like an ostrich feather.

[karunald]

#5 are not Sensitive ferns. I'd 'bet' they're Hayscented. Sensitive is very distinct looking.

[fernleaf]

Those are not sensitive ferns. They look like hay scented ferns. Dry them, rub them in your hand, smell, should smell like hay. Hay scented spreads 'wildly'. Sensitive Fern gets its name because it is the first to go when the weather gets cold. Sensitive Fern has a fertile stalk like Ostrich fern that winters over.