A QUICK GUIDE to keeping your ferns alive

he British countryside had attracted a number of botanists who began to study ferns and started an obsession, so much so that it required its own name. Fern collecting became the hottest hobby, fern societies sprouted up across the country and fern motifs appeared almost everywhere. The Victorian version died out by 1890, but pteridomania seems to have returned with the recent boom in indoor plant popularity. Ferns can be