Moving Ferns

I have lovely fern that needs identifying and moving. Can you help with both please.It is 4ft tall and semi evergreen Do you move the whole plant or can you split it?

 

If you want identification Jean a photo would help.
I have a few ferns and when they get too big I split them. Don't know if that works with all of them though, I'm sure someone will find one that won't split.

 

Pete. No doubt you will pick this up later. You have first go then we can argue. :D :D

 

To set it going, I would have thought Polystichum aculeatum. But it's too big.

 

I'm not good on ferns, I dont really grow many, if any properly.
It looks like a young dicksonia to me, I would ask Jean, does it have a short hairy trunk.
Looks like there is a darker green one next to it on the right.

 

That's an awful lot of fronds for a dicksonia Pete. Also if it's a dicksonia why would anybody think about dividing it? They would see it has one trunk. My only other thought is a P. munitum which is big. How tall is it Jean? I assume that's a geranium to the left? That gives us some sense of scale.

 

P.S. Next door on the right looks like cycad fronds.

 

Jean said it was 4ft high.
I'm only guessing, I cant even pronounce most fern names, but I must say, cycad fronds to the right, you have got to be joking. :D

 

Hi It has a hairy trunk but I dont think its Dickensia as their are too many fronds and trey come out from the bottom not the top of the trunk.It is approx 4 ft high and beautiful fronds.

 

The fronds do come out of a 1 ft hairy trunk rather than out of the ground.

 

Looks like a dicksonia to me as well Pete, C M the fronds can grow out of the bottom as well as the top of the trunk,John the one on the right looks more like a type of Blechenum not a Cycad.

 

It is Dicksonia, my fern is exaxtly the same as Jeans'. 1 foot tall with lots of fronds this year. I am thinking of moving it to allow the fronds its full potential. I am worrid it may not like its new home.

 

Assuming it is a Dicksonia can I mve it safely and have you any tips?