Mounting Staghorn and Elkhorn Ferns - October 2022
Number 8 on my 2022 to-do list for the season was to 'do more with houseplants'. I talked about repotting a cactus, working with my topiary and mounting some Staghorn Ferns. I recently covered the current state of the Mickey Mouse standing Creeping Fig Vine topiary, so that's in a good place . I haven't gotten around to the Firesticks cactus repotting, but maybe that's a Winter-time project. I've also continued to prune the Umbrella plants in our kitchen, so let's call that bonsai-adjacent. The most recent project in this category has to do with Staghorn Ferns. What started with a single, potted Staghorn Fern turned into a houseplant project and set of gifts for people in our life. I bought five new potted Staghorn Ferns this Spring and ended up mounting (in total) four of them. Giving two away, that left me with two mounted Staghorn Ferns and two potted ones. The smallest mounted fern that I kept perished and died. The larger one, well... it wasn&