Common leafweed

Fern lovers will never refuse to add this perennial plant to their collection. Indeed, unlike the main representatives of fern crops, common leaflet (kostenets) has even, whole, smooth leaves. There are also species in which leaf blade dissected or wavy. Such species are of even greater interest to gardeners.

Despite its modest simplicity, the plant is valued for its decorative appearance and has been cultivated in our area for quite some time. The common leaf can grow up to 50 cm in height and, in combination with its dense leathery leaves, in some gardens it is used, planted along paths, as small hedge or border.

In its original form, this fern can be found on rocky soil areas in the mountain forests of the Caucasus, Central and Southern Europe and the Carpathians.

Having decided to settle the common leaflet on your plot, you should know that it reproduces seedling method or method of rooting leaf cuttings. It is better to choose neutral soil that drains water well.

The plant is characterized by very slow growth. However, a significant positive quality of the leaf is its winter hardiness: it is quite high. And there is evidence of this - even in a snowless winter with frosts up to -30°C the leaf does not freeze. The maximum that can happen is that the plant will lose the leaves that were left for the winter.However, despite such resistance to low temperatures, the common leaf plant needs shelter in winter.

Kostenets feels better if he is in the shadow. Those specimens that grow in the sun acquire a yellow color on the leaf blade and are significantly retarded in growth.