The Australian tree fern has proved impossibly elusive as far as growing in my home goes. I’ve given two of them a try, even installing special lights and a humidifier to make it happier, all to no avail – both gave up entirely, shriveling away into sad and brittle shells of the glory you see in a greenhouse here. At approximately $60 a pop, it became an expensive trial, error, and failure times two.
For now, until the big lottery win and a garden room, I will admire these beauties from afar, in a proper greenhouse or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
