More macho

I mentioned having to hack back the macho ferns around the Key West pool.

Up north, we confine them to pots, so we can take them in for winter -- and they still get huge. The one behind the impatiens here under the sweetbay trees is at least 5 feet tall. (The impatiens aren't so small themselves; they're happy with a good feeding every three weeks. And that big old hanging Boston fern is so heavy we bend rebar to make the hooks.)

We brought two little machos to Tennessee a few years ago. Every winter, they overflowed the benches in the greenhouse, so we divided and repotted, divided and repotted. . . .

Stop us before we fern again.