Blue Star Fern – 1 Gallon Pot

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A native to South America’s tropical forests, the Blue Star Fern (Phlebodium aureum) can be grown indoors or outdoors, depending on your location. If the winter temperatures don’t go below freezing you can can grow it outdoors year round. Otherwise, it can be grown in a container that can be situated outdoors during the warm seasons and overwintered indoors, or grown indoors year round as a houseplant. Distinct in both form and color, the wavy blue-green to grey-blue leaves come in various shapes on the same plant, ranging from fern-like fronds to elongated single blades with no lobes. Easy to grow and a vigorous grower indoors or outdoors. Indoors it likes bright indirect light. Outdoors it likes shade to part shade with shade in the afternoon hours.

Growing 12 to 24 inches tall and wide, the beautiful Blue Star Fern is ideal for use indoors or outdoors, depending on the location. If winter low temperatures don’t drop below freezing, it can be grown year-round outdoors where it serves as an accent or in small grouping in small garden spaces, and large groupings or absolutely stunning mass plantings in larger landscape borders. Where winter low temperatures drop below freezing, it can be grown in containers that can be situated outdoors during the warm season and brought indoors during the cold season when temperatures are forecast to drop below 50F, or grown indoors year round as a houseplant.  A fine addition to woodland gardens, shade gardens, fern gardens, Asian gardens, rock gardens and around garden ponds. 

The Blue Star Fern is one of the easiest houseplant ferns to grow. For helpful tips, click on the Planting & Care Advice tab on this page.

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