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How do I rescue this mature fern?

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  • Dig up your fern and add organic material or compost to the hole if you have clay soil that that doesn't drain well. Replace the fern, water it well and give it a few weeks to bounce back. Transplant the fern if it currently grows in direct sunlight and has browned leaflets or fronds.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I'm going to do another post about what to put in the beds, because I've been waiting until spring to plant in them and now have no idea what to put there. Lots of people in here will have some great ideas no doubt. In the other one I have some heucheras and a tiny sarcococca which the garden centre bloke suggested for the conditions. 

    I'm interested to see other recommendations, good luck!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    It was another £700 unfortunately but the garden has had/will always have major water issues. We've reached the limit of what we can do now though, have to just make the best of poor conditions.
    Think postive.  Poor conditions for some plants are just right for others.  

    See my post on primulas.


     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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