Mounting A Staghorn Fern - Project with Kids - February 2022
Yesterday I posted a couple of photos of our second Staghorn Fern - a tiny one that we bought with the intention of trying to mount it to a board - as is typical for these kind of ferns. Having poked around the Web and watched dozens of YouTube videos of how-to's, I settled on this process: 1. Find board, cut to size. 2. Seal said board. I used a can of clear coat spray that I had on hand. Don't think this is necessary, but since you dunk the board AND fern in water to keep it hydrated, I figured this little extra step couldn't hurt. 3. Draw a circle on the board, a little bigger than the container it arrived in. 4. Drill a couple of short screws in the back that I can run picture-hanging wire from. I did these first, because I figured that once the fern was mounted, I wasn't going to be able to flip it over and apply pressure with an impact driver to get these screws in. 5. Flipped it back over and laid down a temporary piece of wo...