Boston Fern

🌿Lush cascading fronds transform your shady porches, decks, and gardens into relaxing, tropical oases!🌿

Native to the tropics (including Florida), these classic ferns bring a gentle, verdant vibe to any space. Perfect for transforming shady entryways, porches, decks, gardens, pools, and entertaining areas into inviting spaces, these easy-care plants are happy with shade, water, and humidity. Hang them on hooks or keep them in containers up on pedestals to show off their softly draping fronds. 

Boston Ferns are technically terrestrial or epiphytic, which means that in nature they can both grow in soil in the ground, and also on top of other plants. They usually get to 2-3'T x W in containers, but in the wild have been known to get between 4-7T'!   

Note: Ferns reproduce by sori, which are copper/brown spots on the undersides of their fronds. They are not pests, but signs of happy and thriving plants.

💧Water: Keep their soil moist, but not wet. Boston Ferns LOVE humidity!

🦌Deer resistant: deer avoid these plants.

🏆Award winning! Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit

We source our Boston Ferns from a small, independent, family-owned business located here in North Carolina.

Happiest in shady areas but they can handle partial shade.
Cold hardy to zone 11. Bring indoors when temps drop to the 40s.

Plant Nerd: Boston Ferns are native to Florida and have a wild, if convoluted history. In 1903 adventurous plantsmen went out into what is now Royal Palm State Park to see what they could find, and found Boston Ferns, Royals Palms, and a dead rattlesnake. One of them got very sick from carrying around the poisonous rattlesnake on his sweaty back but recovered; the plants were successfully propagated and spread across the US. The full story is lost to time, but a shipment of these plants ended up in Boston, which ended up giving them their name. Botanists don't agree on the exact formal name of this plant, but what we know as 'Boston Ferns' are likely a natural mutation that causes the gently cascading fronds whereas other Nephrolepis exaltata have formal, upright fronds. 

According to North Carolina State University, these plants are helpful for removing indoor pollutants.