Ferns taking over my hostas (grown, Butterfly Bush, 2013, butterfly)
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From nowhere ferns have taken over my hostas. I have my driveway raised bed garden that I moved hostas from my side yard several years ago, no ferns had ever grown there. I do have large ferns way in the very back of the yard, and they have been waning the past several years because of trees coming down and it's not as shady. But I have never moved anything from the back to the front. So I trimmed down the ferns so the hostas can be seen. It's so odd to see these ferns popping up in the front.
I'm wondering if the ferns will be ok after having trimmed them all the way back. Then I plan to move them to back this fall.
Looks to me like it might be easier to move your hostas. Those ferns have totally taken over, and they look beautiful and healthy. Birds likely dropped seeds, or wind....Whatever they look at home there.
Do you have room for another nice hosta bed? We made a bed for hostas under a backyard tree. Surrounding the base of the tree, a sort of large oval area...it looks lovely.
Oh geeze, that is SO beautiful!! I had a bed just like that when we lived up north and had some shade. It was my favorite part of the garden. But those ferns are a nightmare to move. Jan is right; moving the hostas would be easier. I got my ferns from my parents' wooded property in Michigan's U.P., and what seemed like it would be an easy dig project was a real backbreaker. When they're that robust, they do NOT want to come out of the ground.
I didn't know ferns were so hardy. I did trim them off to let the hostas show off. My gardening was all done for me by previous owner so I don't always know exactly what to do with all this. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the garden. I have about a thousand hostas all over the yard, front sides and back.
Just this year some hostas were chewed off at the bottom of the front hill. Deer have never been a problem in our yards, don't know why because they are in droves across the street around the corner in the golf course. They must get enough over there.
Thanks! I had that pink one identified on the forum here last year, yes it is Queen-of-the-Prairie Filipendula rubra Rose family (Rosaceae). I call it a butterfly bush because it attracts them. The foliage turns colors as well as the season progresses. When we first moved in my husband thought it was a weed and pulled many of them. They have made a comeback finally and he learned a lesson.
Sword ferns are simply a wonderful weed (propagated from spores blown in the wind), I have many and trim off fronds when needed or aged and they continue to grow without problem. I pull them when they come up in areas I don't want and sometimes move them to where I want them. I have hundreds and they do like areas that the Hostas thrive in.
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