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If unhappy, Boston ferns will quickly show you their displeasure by dropping fronds.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2025
Palm, banana, olive, and yucca trees create a dense canopy that contrasts with the Boston ferns and fiddle-leaf figs around the pool.
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Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2024
Here's What to Know Holiday Plant Alternatives Consider using some safer choices as colorful accents amid other non-toxic houseplants like Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata), areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens), and spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum).
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Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2024
The same Boston fern, for example, appears in Lisa Eldred Steinkopf’s family photos dating back to the 1960s.
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Lauren David, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
Each basket comes with four bunches of Boston fern leaves, seven flower bunches, one faux grass base, and one metal basket.
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Lee Alisha Williams, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2023
It can be used outdoors or indoors and is perfect for adding cascading greenery like a String of Dolphins succulent or Boston fern.
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L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
Give Boston fern part sun, shielding it from intense afternoon sun.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
An outdoor hanging plant classic, the Boston fern's voluminous greenery looks equally at home indoors.
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Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 21 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined above
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“Boston fern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boston%20fern. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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