Adorable Foliage
Light Preference/Tolerated (Bright Indirect Light, Medium Light)
Nutrient Rich, Well-Draining Soil
Mature Height 16 inches
Pet Safe

The Heart Fern is a tropical plant with beautiful, glossy, green leaves. The heart-shaped fronds look afloat on their dainty black stems. It’s native to southern Asia and has become very popular at nurseries and garden stores. This plant loves high humidity and is ideal for terrariums. Other names for this plant include Tongue fern, Heart Leaf fern, and Heart’s Tongue.

Best Locations For Growing Heart Fern

The Heart Fern is a perfect plant for a terrarium or ‘fairy garden’. It will need a warm, moist environment to thrive. To boost humidity, consider placing your Heart Fern in a bathroom or near the kitchen sink. You could even put it under a glass dome for an elegant look.

Heart Fern Requirements

The Heart Fern requires indirect sunlight. In nature, it’s found in partial shade under the forest canopy. Avoid bright, direct sunlight with this plant as it may scorch the leaves.

Heart Fern Care

Maintain a high humidity level and moist (not soggy) soil for best results with this fern. Its soil should be fast draining but able to retain moisture.

Watering Heart Fern Plants

This plant is susceptible to root rot so make sure it isn’t sitting in stagnant water. Water when the top inch of soil is dry, about every week. In a terrarium, the Heart Fern might need watering every two weeks depending on how high the humidity is inside the enclosure.

Feeding Heart Fern Plants

Ferns such as the Heart Leaf do not need frequent fertilizing. Use a general-purpose fertilizer for houseplants at half the recommended strength of the manufacturer.

Heart Fern Information

Light Exposure: Bright Indirect Light, Medium Light

Care Requirements: Easy

Watering Requirements: Average - Keep lightly moist. When the top 2 inches of the soil dries out.

Pet Friendly: Yes

Kid Friendly: Yes

Air Purifier: Low

Habit: Mounded

Growth Rate: Slow

Mature Height: 16 inches

Mature Spread: 12 inches

Flowering: No

Flower Color(s): None

Flower Shade/Description: Grown for Foliage

Fragrant: No

Foliage Type:

Foliage Color(s): Green

Foliage Description: Glossy Green

Temperature: 60° - 85°F (16° - 29°C)

Humidity: Above Average (60% - 80%)

Common Name: Heart Fern

Other Name(s): Heart-Leaf Fern

Scientific Name: Hemionitis arifolia

Plant Type: House Plant

SKU:: Fern_Heart-HP

Container Sizes

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Plant Shipping

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Winter to Early Spring

We ship only when it's warm enough to plant in your growing zone.
Sometimes plants aren't completely ready to sell and ship in early spring. We will wait until the plants are ready before shipping so you don't get a subpar product.
For Southern plants we will be able to ship much earlier than plants coming from our northern nursery.

Summer

If there is extreme heat we may delay shipping for a week or several weeks.
We review what areas the plants are traveling through as well as your location.

Fall into Winter

We’ll ship plants out all the way up to the end of the fall planting season!

Winter

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Special Order Colors: 8 weeks - this is due to the planter being custom made with the color(s) of your choice

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