How to Grow Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
Your complete guide to growing Boston Fern.
📷 Wikipedia: Nephrolepis exaltataCompanion Plants for Boston Fern
✓ Good companions
Enjoys same cool, humid conditions and provides complementary trailing growth habit
Same family with identical humidity requirements, creates lush fern grouping that maintains moisture
Similar humidity and light requirements, both help purify air and create complementary foliage textu…
Similar light and humidity needs, broad leaves provide nice contrast to delicate fern fronds
Similar watering needs and creates visual contrast with cascading vines against fern fronds
Thrives in high humidity environments and similar low to medium light conditions
Helps increase humidity through large leaf transpiration, tolerates same indirect light
Thrives in same indirect light conditions and helps increase ambient humidity through transpiration
✗ Keep away from
Desert plant preferring bright light and dry conditions, incompatible with fern's humid shade requir…
Succulent requiring dry soil between waterings conflicts with fern's need for consistently moist soi…
Prefers dry conditions and infrequent watering, opposite of fern's constant moisture needs
