Lygodium japonicum
9th September 2012
I have wanted to grow the Japanese Climbing Fern for many years but it has always been difficult to obtain and
painfully expensive. Suddenly through the wonder of micropropagation it has been mass produced
and I was able to obtain a small one in a 9cm pot for the price of a cup of tea. When a cup of tea is perfect
it is a wonderful thing that floods the senses with joy, and that is where things currently stand.
I am shall we say, happy.
It grows from a short branching rhizome just below the soil and produces enormously long leaves that vine upwards
and scramble through low undergrowth.
30th August 2018
7th August 2021
I had it in a pot in the greenhouse until last year when I planted it in the Hedychium house. It is a bit dry in there but I am hoping
it will be more vigorous planted in the soil.