ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Oh dear, doesn't time fly. My last post on ferns was in May 2022, more than three years ago. Since then I have lost a few and added a few, plus I have three years more experience of all the rest. In this post I will continue the roundup of the varieties I have and…
When I did my last post on ferns in 2019 I hadn't covered all the ferns I grow and intended to return to the subject soon. It didn't happen. I recently updated my ferns list and realised that I'd in fact mentioned less than half of those I have now, not all of which are…
I started a series about the ferns I grow, posting blogs in April, May and June this year. It had been my intention to work my way through all the ferns I have but as with so many good intentions, it didn’t happen. Almost everything I included in those blogs was a plant growing in…
It has mostly been a dry spring and this has slowed the progress of several of my ferns. As with most plants that do most of their growing in a short burst in spring, they expect to have abundant water available to them and can be hard hit if it is not. Athyrium nipponicum 'Red…
Here are six more ferns from my garden. I thought I could go through most of them in a few weeks in spring but it is only when you set out on such a task that you realise how quickly some emerge and how slowly others. That's a good thing; it extends the period over…
I just did a count of the ferns I grow and found I had 23 forms growing in the ground plus another 10 in pots. There are a couple of wild native ferns around, nearly-weeds being allowed to masquerade as garden plants. That’s too many for one blog and besides, they don’t all look their…
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