{"product_id":"blechnum-gibbum-silver-lady","title":"Blechnum gibbum 'Silver Lady'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlechnum gibbum 'Silver Lady'\u003c\/strong\u003e is a dwarf tree fern, and easily one of the most elegant \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ferns\"\u003eferns\u003c\/a\u003e you can grow indoors. Its glossy, bright green fronds arch out in a perfectly symmetrical shuttlecock rosette, like a fountain frozen in mid splash, and with age the whole crown slowly rises on a slender, dark, fibrous trunk, giving you a genuine miniature tree fern at windowsill scale. It holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit, and next to finer leathery ferns it reads as architectural rather than fluffy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fern comes from New Caledonia and Vanuatu in the south west Pacific, and has also made itself at home in Fiji, growing as an understorey plant in warm, humid forest. It belongs to the hard fern family, Blechnaceae, and its name has had an eventful history: botanists have shuffled it through Lomaria and, most recently, Oceaniopteris, but Kew and the RHS both settle on Blechnum gibbum, with 'Silver Lady' the compact selection sold for the home. It is the tender, trunk forming cousin of the hardy \u003ca href=\"\/products\/blechnum-spicant\"\u003eBlechnum spicant\u003c\/a\u003e and Blechnum tabulare we offer for the garden, and a natural partner for the indoor \u003ca href=\"\/products\/blechnum-brasiliense-volcano\"\u003eBlechnum brasiliense 'Volcano'\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it bright, filtered light with no direct sun, which scorches the fronds; near a north or east facing window is ideal. Keep the compost evenly moist at all times, as it has little tolerance for drying out, but let excess water drain rather than leaving the pot standing wet. It is a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/humidity-loving-houseplants\"\u003ehumidity lover\u003c\/a\u003e, so a bathroom, a grouped display or a spot above a pebble tray suits it well, and browning frond tips are usually a plea for damper air. Keep it at 10C or above, away from cold draughts and hot radiators, and resist the urge to tidy too hard: leave older fronds in place until they are fully spent, as the plant draws goodness back from them as it builds its trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GrowTropicals","offers":[{"title":"12cm","offer_id":58256305717631,"sku":"OCEAGIBB12","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0361\/9645\/0348\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_b66386c9-f9b6-42e2-ae9c-ae5627278add.jpg?v=1787928422","url":"https:\/\/growtropicals.com\/products\/blechnum-gibbum-silver-lady","provider":"GrowTropicals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}