I did two coats and let them dry about 2-3 minutes between coats.

Bringing it inside during sunny times of day, everything.Then it was done.. Time to throw it in the trash.. As a last ditch experiment, I decided to cut it back a little.

Then, hey, why not, I cut it back a lot.Completely actually.And brought it into the mudroom, the one with all the window across the front of the house.. Bingo.

About a month later and I had a fern again!.Oh, and that pot?

You want to know about that pot?

You mean the awesome crackly, aged, rope-edged work of art there?We have a whole assortment of different eras represented on different doors around here, but the one in my front hall was the lame-o shiny kind..

But I fixed it up good.Originally I had thought about maybe just spraying it with a little Oil Rubbed Bronze, but then I remembered that warm metals are awesome..

Someone had installed a little slide lock on the door at some point and it was made from some kind of cheap brass.I guess because of its cheapness, it had tarnished quicker than the door knob and it was exactly the kind of old-looking finish I was looking for.. OK, maybe pretty isn’t the right word for it.