FoliageGardens.com
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Foliage Gardens Fern Nursery Your Source for Hardy Rare and Exotic Ferns
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Foliage Gardens dates back to the summer of 1967 when I became enamored with a planting of Dryopteris erythrosora. Unable to find any of this now common fern for sale I decided to try growing a few from spores. Some 300 D. erythrosoras sprang to life and an addiction was born! One fern led to another and the small basement propagating table soon was replaced with sets of shelves. That lasted about as long as an empty garden bed and we soon added a “plant room”. After that filled up a greenhouse followed and so it continues!
At first the ferns were donated to local plant societies for their fund raising efforts, but as enthusiasm and interest expanded so did the need to officially open for business and so we did. (Foliage Gardens is the oldest mail order nursery for spore grown ferns in the U.S. according to Dr. John Mickel, Curator of Ferns, Emeritus at the New York Botanical Garden.)
While most nurseries in those days were offering but a smattering of collected native ferns, we soon discovered fern societies and better yet their spore exchanges. Their lists are a collector’s dream with an enticing selection of unusual foreign species, natives and traditional favorites. We were pleased and excited, then as now, to be able to grow these hardy exotics and introduce them to the American market (not to mention our garden). We offer no collected ferns - all are nursery propagated.
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