{"id":9118,"date":"2020-10-29T02:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2020-10-29T02:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T02:28:31","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-276-asplenium-scolopendrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/plant-a-day-2020-day-276-asplenium-scolopendrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 276) Asplenium scolopendrium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had tried to grow a bird\u2019s nest fern when I was young\u2013it was a houseplant that seemed to waste away slowly in front of my eyes. It is a wonder that I became a plant person at all after that hideous, heart-breaking failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hart\u2019s tongue fern is a very similar fern and close relative to the bird\u2019s nest fern, but lucky for it, it is perfectly hardy here and easily grown outdoors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tough fern growing in the woodland garden for over a decade adds a nice contrast to the frillier ferns growing in that garden.\u00a0 It has tongue-like leaves that stay crisp and green most of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I noticed this year that the leaves have a lot of what appear to be chew marks, so maybe this plant is making its way into the food web despite being a non-native ornamental from elsewhere in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are no special future plans for this plant.\u00a0 It seems to be doing well enough without any care and while I appreciate it, I don\u2019t love it enough to want to propagate it or add more anywhere in the yard.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had tried to grow a bird\u2019s nest fern when I was young\u2013it was a houseplant that seemed to waste away slowly in front of my eyes. It is a wonder that I became a plant person at all after that hideous, heart-breaking failure. The hart\u2019s tongue fern is a very similar fern and close … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 276) Asplenium scolopendrium<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}