{"id":6325,"date":"2016-05-25T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2016-05-24T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:13:08","slug":"growing-evergreen-harts-tongue-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-evergreen-harts-tongue-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing  Ferns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fernery can be a fine thing Evergreen Hart&#8217;s Tongue Fern<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Harts-tongue-fern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6326\" title=\"Hart's tongue fern\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Harts-tongue-fern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Harts-tongue-fern.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Harts-tongue-fern-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asplenium scolopendriums or spleenworts are a good contrast plant in a shady fern border. The shape of the long evergreen fronds gave rise to the common name Hart&#8217;s Tongue Fern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Hart&#8217;s Tongue Ferns<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They provide year round interest being ferns with simple, undivided fronds. The leaves are 4-24 &#8221; long and 2-3&#8243; broad.<\/li>\n<li>Once planted, hart&#8217;s tongue fern grows slowly and needs little attention apart from annual mulching and tidying in spring.<\/li>\n<li>Plants grow on lime-rich substrates including moist soil and damp crevices in old walls, most commonly in shaded situations.<\/li>\n<li>In sunny sites the leaves turn a sickly yellow.<\/li>\n<li>They are not suitable for growing in pots and containers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Stream by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6240745677\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6110\/6240745677_19d7bdaed9.jpg\" alt=\"Stream\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Varieties of Asplenium <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crispum group have fronds with crimped margins making them appear plumose or feather like. Boltons Needle is one specific form.<\/li>\n<li>Asplenium scolopendrium muricatum has narrow dark green fronds with raised wrinkly edges.<\/li>\n<li>Asplenium trichomanes have glossy green oval, pinnae paired along the length of a purplish stem. Ideal for walls and crevices.<\/li>\n<li>Asplenium scolopendriumLaceratum Kays is a form with wide open, ovate fronds with deeply cut margins and miniature crested tips.<\/li>\n<li>See others at World of Ferns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godsowncounty.co.uk\/04\/yorkshire-dales\/beauty-of-yorkshire-dales\/\">Yorkshire Dales<\/a> National Park the ferns make an important contribution to the local flora. Hart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-tongue fern is shade-tolerant and prefers lime-rich soils and can be found in dark and damp environments including the grykes of limestone pavements.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Woodland by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6240717529\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6213\/6240717529_d5472ddaa1.jpg\" alt=\"Woodland\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bracken<em> or Pteridium<\/em> is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Historicallly bracken was used to produce thatch, animal bedding, compost and used in herbal medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fernery can be a fine thing Evergreen Hart&#8217;s Tongue Fern Asplenium scolopendriums or spleenworts are a good contrast plant in a shady fern border. The shape of the long evergreen fronds gave rise to the common name Hart&#8217;s Tongue Fern. Growing Hart&#8217;s Tongue Ferns They provide year round interest being ferns with simple, undivided fronds. The leaves are 4-24 &#8221; long and 2-3&#8243; broad. Once planted, hart&#8217;s tongue fern grows slowly and needs little attention apart from annual mulching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-evergreen-harts-tongue-fern\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","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=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}