Indoors
Boston fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
- Cat: not toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: half shade
About the plant
The Boston fern comes from tropical America and is one of the most popular indoor ferns. It has long, arching fronds; it needs constantly moist soil and humid air, and sheds leaflets when the air is dry.
Boston fern and pets
- Cat
- not toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
Care
- Watering
- about every 3 days in summer (April to September), every 6 in winter
- Light
- half shade
- Air humidity
- high
- Temperature
- 16–24 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 4 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
Keep the soil and the air slightly moist: mist it. By a radiator the fronds turn brown.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.