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Summer planting
Contrary to popular opinion, summer planting is fine as long as adequate water is provided throughout any prolonged dry periods. This allows you to take advantage of increased summer growth.
Lygodium articulatum
Height: 4m;  Spread: 0.5m
Mangemange (Fern)
Climbing fern with interesting foliage. Difficult to establish, limited availability.
» Click here for our Lygodium articulatum article published in The Fringe, April 2015 ...
Photo gallery:
Waitaia Track, Kuaotunu, Coromandel
Capable of forming a wall of shiny leaves, mangemange often looks more like a lush vine than a fern.
Capable of forming a wall of shiny leaves, mangemange often looks more like a lush vine than a fern.
The new shoots of the fern are making good use of the dead frond as a scaffold.
The delicate tracery of the fertile fronds.
Ready to release their spore - the fertile fronds at maturity.
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