Osmunda Mount

[Subrosa]

I'm fortunate to work at a nursery that specializes in water and woodland gardens, which gives me access to lots of nice plant material, in addition to winter greenhouse space. Anyway while doing a bit of cleaning up, I came across a pot that had once contained a fairly large native Cinnamon Fern which must have died in our drought this past spring. That's Osmunda cinnamoneum for you binomial nomenclature fans. As I dumped out the pot, I noticed a large chunk that didn't crumble like the rest of the soil. When I saw the dark fibers a light bulb went on and I washed away the soil to find a fist sized clump of osmunda. I have a Dendrobium loddigesii that produces keikis prodigiously, so I clipped a cane full of keikis and mounted it to the pad. Two weeks later and I'm definitely seeing new growth.