Thursday, November 15, 2012

BEFORE AND AFTER - KIMBERLY QUEEN'S MAKE-UNDER





BEFORE

We've had a few hard frosts here.  The forecast was calling for a low of 29 degrees outside.  Kimberly Queen was living outside, on the edge, day by day.  Online info says that  these ferns survive to 29 degrees.

She needed to come in from the cold.  As my husband brought her through the door, fronds snapped off, leaves shattered down.  She was bigger than our doorways.  He put her down in place. I had cleared an area near a window. Well, in reality, as he put her into place, she was covering the window, draping off the chair, and covering most of the back door.  I had underestimated her size, by a lot, she was a behemoth.  This wasn't going to work.  I asked my husband to take her back outside.  You know how husbands love that sort of thing, but there simply was no place to put her, so out she went.

The 29 degree night came and went, and Kimberly survived.  Later, that morning, scissors in hand,  I went outside.  I cut and hacked and cut some more. Fronds flew.   Edward Scissorhands look out!
AFTER
Tah-Dah! :-(  More like boo hoo.  This is what I had to do.  See the fronds on the ground.  I left a few fiddleheads on her.

She's in the house now, fitting nicely in her allotted semi-sunny spot, fiddleheads starting to unfurl.  This fern was my favorite plant this summer.  Wish her luck this winter.  Fall has been rough on her.

HOPEFULLY, NOT THE END

 

9 comments:

  1. Susie your gorgeous fern is totally similar to the ones we have here and they grow like weeds and one can't kill them! I'm sure yours will return in leaps and bounds. It's a beauty though.
    That was fascinating what you wrote me about the Mississippi river, and the carp. We have huge problems here in our major rivers with a type of carp, which are causing massive destruction and some industrious people are turning them into fertiliser!
    So the frosts have started - hope you won't be shovelling snow!
    Take good care
    Rose
    x

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  2. Gorgeous fern, one of the most reliable and easiest to grow and beautiful as well. !
    Vicky xx

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  3. I love those ferns but haven't been able to keep one over the winter...they always die on me :) Hoping yours does well...blessings

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  4. I always wonder how the Victorian's had such beautiful ferns in their homes. My friend in Webster knows someone who takes care of peoples ferns over the winter!

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  5. Susie your gorgeous fern is totally similar to the ones we have here and they grow like weeds and one can't kill them! I'm sure yours will return in leaps and bounds. It's a beauty though.
    Regarda
    Angelica

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  6. Good luck to your Dear Plant, as she winters-over, inside. :-))))

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  7. Aw she just had a a bad haircut day, she will recover.

    I could just imagine my husband if I asked him to bring in the plant, and then take it out again, lol.

    Jen

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  8. O, I did the same thing last year and mine survived just fine...about to bring it in for this winter. :))

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  9. Ohhhh..nooo..I couldn't have done it. She was gorgeous! Surely there was SOME place for her! No?? Well..I think I would have tried to wrestle those sissors away from you..Some of my ferns never did come back..so..here is hoping that she does. (ohdearohdearohdear!)

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