Our local grocery store had Boston ferns for sale on their front sidewalk yesterday.
I had three ferns on our screened porch last year, and they, with some good care, stayed green for months!
Loved that!!
I won't be buying any just yet, since there is the good chance we may still have some over nite temperatures that fall into the 30's over the next few weeks.
Ferns are sold all summer, so there is no chance of me missing out on getting a few for the porch.
They add a bit of pzazz if you ask me.
I tried having Boston Ferns when we lived in the Southwest, but THAT heat simply didn't allow me, no matter how hard I tried, to be successful at keeping them alive.
It's desert country. It's cactus country. It's ugly country for plants.
Just ugly.
BUT,
we should have an abundance of blooms coming in April.
These blooms were photographed in our planter bed mid April of last year, and I look forward to their beauty once again.
