Boston Fern
- Botanical Name
- Nephrolepis exaltata
- Hardiness
- Zones 10 to 12
- Height
- 2 to 3 feet
- Width
- 2 to 3 feet
- Light
- Bright indirect or filtered light
- Soil
- Moist well-drained potting mix
- Planting & Care
- Keep soil consistently moist at all times
- Requires high humidity
- Repot and divide overcrowded plants in the spring
- Summer outdoors if plant declines over winter
- Problems
- Scale, mealybug, slugs, white fly
- Varieties
- Bostoniensis - broad, arching fronds
- Fluffy Duffy - fringed foliage, compact
- Fluffy Ruffles - stiff, upright, densely leafed
- Childsii - overlapping, curling leaflets
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