PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
You are viewing a Tree Fern in a ten litre pot which is between four and five years old around 1 mtr. high and well established. They have a small trunk. These plants are propagated from spores and are grown here in our Nursery. They are not imported from the wild. They are grown in robust Italian plastic pots and will not need repotting until spring 2026. The compost contains sufficient nutrients to last until spring 2025. The plant pictured in the wooden photo booth is from the batch we are currently selling. Dicksonia antarctica is the most iconic and popular of the large ferns grown in the UK. With an unsurpassed elegance and primordial visual effect, it is a plant of outstanding beauty and has been granted the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Dicksonia antartica develops a stout reddish-brown stem and a terminal rosette of arching, deeply divided, glossy dark green fronds up to 3mtrs. in length. In addition to garden planting, once the stem is around half a meter tall, these ferns can be grown very successfully in pots and containers, as long as you can reproduce the basic requirements, and especially the need for constant moisture. Use a good quality neutral or acid (ericaceous) peat or peat substitute compost. Be very careful with cheap peat free composts that often dry out very quickly. Tree ferns generally require a constant feed of nutrients so please ensure you feed regularly as a hungry plant is a poor performer. We recommend Osmoscote pro 12 - 14 month applied in the early spring as growth begins. One application gives all the nutrients the plant requires for the whole year. Ensure the pot or container is placed in a semi shady location while the plant is young, however as soon as a stem begins to form they can take quite strong sunlight. Keep moist and protect from frost in winter. In a frost proof location with good light, they will continue to grow through winter. Once you have half a meter of stem the plants are less prone to damage from cold weather.
Dicksonia antarctica - Tree Fern - 10 L Pot
Specifications
- Brand Hortus Planta Ltd
- Type Exotic
- Common Name Tree Fern
- Latin Name Dicksonia antarctica
- Sunlight Partial Shade|Full Shade
- Watering Medium
- Aspect South-facing |West-facing|East-facing
- Climate Sheltered
- Season
- Soil ph Acidic|Neutral
- Soil Type South-facing |West-facing|East-facing
- Hardiness H3 ( -5 to 1 C)
- Height 2.5 - 4 Mtrs
- Foliage Deciduous
Hortus Planta was bought to you in 2022. We operate from our nursery in West Sussex where all our plants are grown and from where everything we sell is dispatched. We are a small team. Our horticultural director has an impressive knowledge of plants gained over forty plus years of experience in propagation, production and customer service. Our team has 15 years of experience in online selling. We aim to use this combined expertise to bring you a desirable and interesting offer of quality plants and related products, with new items added annually.
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We ship via Royal Mail tracked 48 for our smaller items and Parcelforce Express 48 for our larger orders.
All items must be returned in the same condition it was received. Returns are processed within 1-2 business days upon return delivery date. Refunds are less the cost of the originally purchased shipping.
Please remember when purchasing from us that we are not a garden centre. In general garden centres sell a range of seasonal plants, that are sold for a limited period of time, when they look at their best. We are a nursery and offer you plants as near to an all year-round basis as possible. This means that at different times of year plants will not look at their best. In winter some may just be a pot of roots, in summer many will have been pruned and in autumn deciduous plants will have leaves that are dying and this will often mean they are mis-coloured and diseased, both natural ingredients of the process of decay and eventually renewal. All our plants have a one year, no quibble guarantee, from the date of order, so in the very unlikely event your poorly looking plant bought in autumn or winter (or in the case of some varieties, in summer) does not flourish in its main growing season, you are protected!