wood slabs are also ideal for, use as a base 
material for making wall or table arrange- 
ments. a ee Bie 
be Fernwood Jardinieres 
By using cross sections of the treefern 
trunks attractive plant containers are manu- 
-factured in various sizes and shapes. Sizes 
* for fernwood jardinieres are shown by outside 
_ diameter: Due to the porosity of the walls of 
these plant containers, the roots of the plants 
can penetrate through and thereby utilize the 
walls of the container as a growth medium. 
Sizes of holes drilled in the jardinieres are as 
large as practical and still leaving sufficient 
wall thickness for durability. 
Fernwood jardinieres have been hand 
made locally for many years and used for 
growing azaleas, camellias, anthuriums, and 
other mildly acid loving plants. The smaller 
jardinieres from 6 to 14"’ in diameter are 
designed so that they can be used for display 
purposes as an attractive container for potted 
plants already established in clay pots; or the 
established plants can be removed from the 
clay pots dnd inserted in the fernwood jar- 
dinieres. * : 
Fernwood jardinieres are light and dur- 
able and ship at low cost to dny market point. 
- Fernwood. Tray Planters 
Short sections of fernwood slabbing are 
routed to form tray planters. These are ideal 
planters for use as miniature tray gardens, 
or they may be used as bases for dry flower 
arrangements. Because of the water retaining 
ability. of the treefern material the planters: 
may be set in shallow pans supplied with 
water and will transfer water from the base 
. to the plants. ‘This system of watering is also 
_ practical with fernwood jardinieres. 
soe Fernwood Planter Trunks 
Planter trunks are natural medium size 
treefern trunks that have planting holes drill- 
ed at regular places on the surface area. 
Plants may be inserted directly into the trunk, 
thus using the treefern trunk as a growing 
base. 
Orchid plants do exceptionally well on a 
treefern base. Climbing type plants can be 
planted directly into the planting pockets thus 
forming a large natural totem pole. The plant- 
er trunks are shipped unpackaged and with- 
out base or containers. 
