I realize this is an old thread (I found it while Googling a question regarding staghorns) but I am hoping you can help me. I recently acquired a staghorn fern from my mom. I believe she said that she has had it for at least 10 years. It's been hanging from a stand in her back yard. We were able to get it off the stand (it has to be at least 100 pounds, I swear!) and haul it to our house but now I'm not sure what to do with it. Initially I was thinking I'd create a "basket" out of chains and suspend it from one of our oak trees. Now I am wondering if I can attach it/ strap it into a crook of the tree created by 3 branches. I think it would be more secure in the crook but I'm not sure if this will damage the base leaves/fronds. I'm going to try to attach a picture. Can you please also tell me what kind of stag horn fern that it is? Thank you!!!
