Daisy in the Garden

Thursday, 24 April 2025

🌿In My Happy Place ! 🌿

🌿 Me in my happy place 🌿

So the first thing I had to do was fix up the rigging to support the tomato vines , which are now fast coming up through the greenhouse bench .

I must give credit to YouTuber -Tony C Smith on his garden channel for the idea of using paracord for this job . It doesn't biodegrade and is easy to wind up on to it's reel at the end of the season . Nice and neat , ready to re-use next year . This is the second time I've used it . Much better than the string I used to do it with .

So with that job done, on to the next thing .

Repotting this Davallia tyermanii/Humata tyermanii

Also known as The Tarantula Fern .....

....... because of those aerial rhizomes , which resemble the legs of a Tarantula Spider !

It has been outside hanging from a bough of an Apple tree , enjoying the rain .

I thought this old hanging basket would be nice .

A quick trip to B&Q to get a couple of basket liners , because I remembered I have another little fern that also needs repotting .

Also came home with a tray of six dying Pelargonium plug plants that had been reduced to half price .

Here's the little fern that I bought on our last trip . " Mixed Ferns" it says on the label . Not very helpful really is it ? !

But I think it might be either a Staghorn Fern or an Elkhorn Fern . I'm pretty sure it's one of those 🤔

Anyway he was all on his own , and now he's mine !

I already had a basket for this one , I just needed a liner for it . The liner is a bit small but it'll do .

I started with the Spider Fern.

I tend to move this fern around to different places as we go through the different seasons of the year .

Bathroom , front porch , in the shade outside in the garden during the hot summer months , and if it's warm rain or our Cornish mizzle , he is very happy hanging up in the apple tree by the back door .

So when I give it water indoors , it needs to drain into a saucer . It took me ages to find the right size for it .

Then I had to be very careful not to break any of it as I took it out of the old hanging pot .

Then I tried to film myself putting it into the new basket and putting the compost in . This was not a good idea .

I am not happy with it ......sigh ...it is ridiculously heavy now !

I potted up the other little fern and dunked them both in the pool under the water-butt tap .

I'm happy with the little one . I think as it grows bigger , it will grow out it's adult leaves which will help me to identify it .

Maybe someone out there can tell me what it is ? I'd love to hear !

It would really help me if I could know for sure as the Staghorn fern is epiphytic and the Elkhorn fern is terrestrial . I might need to change how I am growing it .