Pteridophyllum racemosum - 40 noses

[mark smyth]

This was my plant last April

[angie]

Very nice Mark. Something worth having for sure.

Angie 

[Hoy]

This was my plant last April

I hope my plants look something like this in 10 years or so   Not to speak of your 40-noser

[fleurbleue]

How old is your plant Mark ?

[mark smyth]

The trough was planted in May 2006

[Rimmer de Vries]

Have you found that the the just emerging leaf shoots broken off will root ?

Rimmer

[mark smyth]

Never heard of that. Have you tried?

[mark smyth]

only one rubbish flower stem - so far.

Maybe this plant is tired. When can I lift it and freshen the mix underneath?

[Lesley Cox]

Mark, is your plant in a trough? Surely that would be too small a habitat for it? It looks as if it would enjoy a good chunk of woodland. Or is it just a small piece you have taken and put into a new trough? No I now read that it was put there in 2006. So perhaps tired or perhaps just so confined that it's putting everything into staying alive and not into flowering. Like keeping a large dog confined in a biscuit tin.

In fact I find it just about impossible to believe that the pictures that started this topic are the same plant in your two trough pictures or that it could grow to that first size in so small a place. If it were not for the trillium flower as well, I WOULDN'T believe it.

[mark smyth]

Yes Lesley it grew so big since I planted it as a single nosed plant.

Only one flower stem 

I'll have to get it out but when?

[angie]

Thats so disapointing Mark. I managed to get a plant from Ian Christie so hopefully I will get it to flower next year.

Angie 

[Lesley Cox]

I'll have to get it out but when?

ASAP, or before the summer anyway. You may have to lift everything from the trough and start again with the other things, finding a suitable open garden space for the Pteridophyllum. It will likely come out in a single, congested mat. You can probably cut it into several pieces.

[Olga Bondareva]

So beautiful plant Mark! It's beautiful even with one flower stem only. It looks like a blooming fern.