{"id":209,"date":"2016-07-03T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-06-28T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:42:47","slug":"create-a-stumpery-from-tree-roots-and-stumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/create-a-stumpery-from-tree-roots-and-stumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Stumpery from Tree Roots and Stumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stumpery - Biddulph Grange Garden - Biddulph by westher, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/westher\/5652296863\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5652296863_5c78050881.jpg\" alt=\"Stumpery - Biddulph Grange Garden - Biddulph\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The objective of a Stumpery is to create a garden feature from ferns, logs and old tree roots. The Victorians started a trend to build Rooteries, Ferneries and Stumperies as romantic woodland places to grow exotic ferns and woodland plants. If you have a dark corner or want to collect ferns then you could start your own Stumpery quite easily and add to it as the fancy takes you.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Construction of a Stumpery<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Old trees are the basic raw material.<\/li>\n<li>Up rooted tree stumps like those after a big storm or pulled out by chains form a great base<\/li>\n<li>Gnarled and twisted shapes work well to create form and shape<\/li>\n<li>Just cutting trees down to stumps can be enough in a small garden<\/li>\n<li>If you live in or near the countryside finding logs and tree stumps should be relatively easy.<\/li>\n<li>In a suburban gardens a few pieces of trunk from felled sycamore can form the basis for a mini-stumpery.<\/li>\n<li>Drift wood old branches or any wood artfully arranged can also be used<\/li>\n<li>Bark chippings can unite the feel for the area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Eco-Friendly Stumps<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Different wild life to that found in tidy gardens love stumperies.<\/li>\n<li>Fungus can thrive on decaying wood and moist conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Insects and small mammals have a place to hide, feed and multiply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plant Up with some Ferns<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mosses and lichen can be encouraged by painting uncovered surfaces with yoghurt<\/li>\n<li>Ferns should be planted in spaces between stumps and roots. They like dark places without fertiliser but some leaf mold can be added to the soil.<\/li>\n<li>Chose a variety of ferns for shape, size and colour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Matteuccia Ostrich feather fern upto 3 feet<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Dyopterarias erythrosora has elegant fronds that emerge bright orange and change to lime-green as they age.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Harts Tongue fern Phylitis has a smoother leaf and sword shape<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Athyriums like the Japanese painted fern (niponicum pictum,) and Lady fern are smaller but can\u00c2\u00a0 light up very dark places.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Adiantum pedatum is a small maidenhair fern with a fragile appearance but a hardy nature. It has a running rootstock that quickly makes a respectable clump.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Snowdrops, celandines,primroses and foxgloves may grow well in semi shaded areas or on the edge of the Stumpery.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">If planting Bluebells make sure they are the native kind not the hybrid or Spanish variety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information on Ferns is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/\">http:\/\/www.ferns.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">\n<p>Photograph of Stumpery at Biddulph Grange Garden &#8211; Biddulph by westher, on Flickr under creative commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stumpery with ferns makes a different garden feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}