They are living fossils that have been on this earth grows more than 300 million years and today there are about 12,000 different types of them. These ferns, and each of them a particular kind of beauty that makes them soft favorites in gardens all over the world.
The English word "Moscow" Fearn ", that" feather "the appearance of spring foliage or" leaves "is meant to describe. Unlike most plants, the ferns do not produce flowers or fruitseeds. They grow from dust-like "tracks" are found in older leaves. Most ferns grow to a height of few meters. A particular type is known as "tree fern. No, it is a fern that grows on a tree. It is a fern that resembles a tree. It may be strains that grow to a height of 6-1/2 to 23 feet (two to seven meters) and a maximum diameter of 3-1/3 feet (1 meter). Yet there is a real tree and the trunk is not wood. Instead, his body is actually produced more rootsand intertwine around a thin stem.
Ferns have many uses. Their spongy stems to absorb water and are used in the cultivation of orchids and an anchor base for the roots of orchids. The strain can be cut as slabs or broken into small pieces and then added to the garden soil in pots and plots. A special type of fern called "mosquito fern", you can air nitrogen in plant foods. E 'is often put in the rice fields to make the company richer soil.
Fernsalso be eaten. The tender young leaves are sometimes eaten fresh as salad ingredients. Ferns called "ostrich fern" and "ferns" are cooked as a vegetable. Some people believe that food the ferns, they can also improve your health, because of some medicinal properties. In some indigenous cultures, the leaves of ferns are boiled and the beer you drink to the bleeding caused by stop. Others say that this is good for cough syrup. Some ferns are used to treat worms.However, the most common use for decorative plants such as ferns. Fern fanatics especially like the way the ferns unfurl slowly in a delicate and graceful spiral.
If you want to grow ferns, you can begin to plant a whole on the bottom. However, it is actually very easy to have a garden and plenty of flowering fern, because you can begin to grow from spores. Here are eight simple steps:
1) You will find these spores under the leaves of adultferns. You can collect the branches laden with spores and holds it between two pieces of paper to keep damaged.
2) at home was the branch in a warm place, free from wind or weather. hold it there for a week or two.
3) Carefully open the two pieces of paper and you will see the tracks and found the dried-up leaves stuck to the paper. Tap the paper. The leaves fall, but the spores stick to the paper.
4) The ferns grow in antransparent plastic container, and you should use a good soft soil. Humus is the best.
5) Make the base a bit '. Then sprinkle the rails at the top of the soil. Not buried the tracks underground.
6) Place the bowl near the window, but not in direct sunlight.
7) Ferns, like mosses, have a lot of water to keep the soil moist - but not too much, because the spores can rot or be washed away.
8) After 6 to 8 weeks (yes, it's a long wait), you begin to see small, flat, like leavesgrowing plants from the soil. This is not the fern plant, but will be soon. The ferns replace the true ferns, after another 6 weeks.
In all this, make sure the soil is moist and dry. With loving care and patience, will soon be many ferns, enough to fill your garden with ferns.
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