Trimming and Repotting Ferns and of Mother-In-Law's Tongue (Sansevieria) plants

 Container Garden  journal entry.

 04/15/2024 - 04/15/2023 – yesterday, I spend time trimming and repotting plants. Before repotting the ferns, I trimmed away all of the dead and dried fronds and did away with some of the lower root. With the help of some rooting hormone, plant feed and Azomite (a natural mineral product) the ferns will generate new roots and fronds in a month or so I have learned that ferns look more graceful when their fronds are allowed to grow when not pressed against walls and fences 

As with the three Monstera plants, I divided the huge planter of Mother-In-Law's Tongue (Sansevieria) plants, which can be partially seen in the previous post laying on its side. The reason for its position is that it was so heavy that it took both Stanley and I to sit it look right but being so heavy and nothing to prop it up, the planter just toppled over again. Just .like the ferns the Mother-In-Law's Tongue plants were treated with rooting hormone, plant feed and Azomite. Although, these plants can easily be rooted in plain water, I left the roots now them when I divided into five pots.

Before repotting 2024

After Repotting 2024

How they looked in 2021

The photos below shows what the ferns and Mother-In-Law's Tongue plants look like now. The tape around the latter plants along with some sticks is to stabilize the plants into the old and new roots take hold, and the crates under each plant not only helps with drainage but also prevent roots from the pot from embedding into the ground.

 

 

How they looked in early 2017

 

How they looked in 2017

I still say that the ferns I repotted yesterday are not mine. When I repotted they was clear that the tops of the plants  sat too high in the planters. as if mine plants were removed and these put in the planter in their plants and that the person who did it did not care that their ferns did not fit my planters. Like mine  Monstera plants, mine ferns became a victim  of a thief. Nevertheless, judging from the top 2024 photo after the repotting and this 2017 photo with good care they can brought to their glory as well.

As for the Mother-In-Law's Tongue plants, they will become sentries of the gardens.

 

Divided and repotted 2024

Before it needed repotting

  Mother-In-Law's Tongue

 

On its side and too heavy to stand on its own.

 

I did not want to forget this. However, the narcissists tore one of the zipper off of the greenhouse last week, then followed it with loud music and  finally an attempt at stealing our groceries. They really, really do not understand the we do not want them interfering in our lives and that their destructive behavior only proves that they lack the capacity to see it as truth and move forward with their lives.