Platycerium_Staghornferns_UK

29/12/2022

Some of the babies of the mother plant (previous post). A couple in intensive care on the right. There were many random casualties from transplanting. Great care must be exercised!

19/08/2022

Platycerium superbum at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Looking majestic.

22/05/2022

Platycerium alcicorne Africa, came through the winter, down to 5°C, completely unscathed in our SW facing conservatory. Doing very well.

19/05/2022

20/02/2022

The beauty of a fallen Platycerium ridleyi fertile frond.

10/02/2022

I sell spores from my Platycerium ridleyi on eBay UK, sending internationally to most countries. Seller name karstensbotanichorticultural.

10/02/2022

Platycerium ridleyi, about 6 months from spore. Some of my sporelings are getting confused shield fronds - new ones are trying to grow under older ones, like in this case. You can see where I sliced off part on the right to allow the young ones through. All this messing about meant I had to take extra measures to secure it in the pot!

09/01/2022

This is how I grow young pups and sporellings.
Platycerium alcicorne Africa

06/01/2022

Platycerium ridleyi, first stage in remounting in a more vertical position.

05/01/2022

Platycerium alcicorne Africa - pups removed from the main plant, now placed in a SW facing window to get established. I plan to sell most of these latter this year.
Note also - I've never seen a genuine P. alcicorne for sale in the UK or mainland Europe. But these are genuine, from a mother plant grown from spore.

05/01/2022

Platycerium alcicorne Africa, just mounted onto a clay stock brick! As we go into the spring, I plan on selling this.

25/10/2021

Platycerium ridleyi spore lobe. It's big!