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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.
—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).
—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.
—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.
—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.
—L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
Give Boston fern part sun, shielding it from intense afternoon sun.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
An outdoor hanging plant classic, the Boston fern's voluminous greenery looks equally at home indoors.
—Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 21 Apr. 2023
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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.
—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).
—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.
—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.
—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.
—L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
Give Boston fern part sun, shielding it from intense afternoon sun.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
An outdoor hanging plant classic, the Boston fern's voluminous greenery looks equally at home indoors.
—Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 21 Apr. 2023
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“Boston fern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boston%20fern. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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