Costa Farms Shares Simple Tips For Decorating Patios, Porches, and Yards with Lush Ferns
Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 24, 2013 -- All summer porches, patios and balconies are just a plant away from the classic, fresh touch they’ve been craving. Ferns’ lacey, exuberant leaves demand attention in any space, and best of all, ferns are one of the easiest houseplants to care for—year-round.
According to Costa Farms, one of the largest growers of plants and flowers in North America, these versatile plants offer shade while sustaining their good looks all summer long, despite the sweltering heat. Ferns drastically improve ambiance when hanging on a porch, combined with pots of colorful annuals, or displayed in classic wire plant stands.
“Ferns are the perfect accessory for the home and garden. Ferns’ leaves add texture, a pop of color, and clean the inside air at the same time,” shares Justin Hancock, Costa Farms’ new Consumer Marketing and Digital Specialist and former garden editor at Better Homes and Garden.
Hancock divulges 11 simple secrets to incorporate the ever-green and ever-classic fern into any outdoor living space.
Mix Containers
Ferns make a classic pairing with exuberantly colorful pots and flower-packed window boxes. Pop a large Boston fern into a tall container to add green lushness to a porch or entryway.
Go Classic
Upright, elegant Kimberly queen fern makes an ideal container companion for a traditional-style seating area. Elegant, timeless patio seating is simple: grey all-weather woven-wicker chairs with white cushions, a wire chandelier, white finials, and a green fern. It’s so simple and so classic!
Top a Table
Make an instant impact by simply placing a pretty vintage tablecloth on a small table and topping it with a Boston fern. Ferns’ lush leaves add visual coolness to summer porches.
Add Height
Ferns provide gorgeous backup color to a pair of vintage white concrete planters. An elegant Boston fern, set into an antique wire stand, adds height and texture where needed.
Adorn a Bench
How easy is this? Just set a fantastic Boston fern on a stone bench in a woodland garden for instant ambience. This fern thrives under the dappled light from nearby trees.
Combine Flowers and Foliage
Dark green, verdant ferns make ideal container partners with lighter-leafed coleus varieties. Ferns offer long fronds, so they don’t require elaborate containers. They can grow all summer in the grower’s pots you bought them in.
Layer Textures
Sun-loving Kimberly queen fern makes an elegant garden entryway plant when combined with old-fashioned rambling roses and lady’s mantle.
Perk Up a Porch
Hang it up and call it a porch! Hanging Boston ferns add lovely lushness to summer porches. Just keep an eye on them in windy weather and make sure they don’t dry out.
Create a Vignette
Here’s an easy pedestal: Upend a blue enamel bucket and set your fern on top. As a pedestal, the blue bucket picks up the color of the nearby verbena. The generous nature of ferns makes them easily posed in a garden.
Line Up on a Ladder
An old-fashioned stepladder makes an excellent stage for ferns because it allows the fronds to drape gracefully without dragging on the ground.
Parade on a Pedestal
Fill in the area beneath a tree by setting a fern on a perch. This fern is seated on a large piece of architectural salvage surrounded by shade-loving perennials such as hosta and coral bells.
To learn more about the world of ferns, visit http://www.costafarms.com or your local garden home store.
About Costa Farms
Costa Farms is the largest producer of indoor houseplants in the world. Founded in 1961 by Jose Costa, Costa Farms is a third generation, family owned business that globally stretches over 3,800 acres and employs 2,800 people. Along with thriving indoor, bedding and perennial plant divisions, Costa Farms operations are located in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina, and abroad in the Dominican Republic, and Far East.
Stacey Pierson, Garden Media Group, http://www.gardenmediagroup.com, 610-444-3040, [email protected]
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