It's in the intensive care corner for now. Will definitely post pics if it decided to live. Thanks @Loxley and @Woodgreen. Just noticed the post about dryopteris. Will check that one out too.
@Astraeus I bought it as Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia' , though the same fern seems to be named as 'Angustata'. Smaller and narrower fronds than the usual native harts-tongue fern. They are said to prefer alkaline soil and shade or part-shade, though the one in my photo gets quite a bit of direct sun, but not all day. I suspect it might resent full sun and too much heat. It divides well, by separating the crowns in spring.
Thanks. My spot for it will get quite a bit of sun but feet will be wet and it'll be constantly splashed. Might that not be the best idea from a scorch point of view?
I don't know I'm afraid, @Astraeus , not having grown any in that situation. But the common harts tongue fern grows in the wall by the stream here and puts up with occasional submerging but not usually with hot sunshine at the same time. Maybe other members have tried it near moving water and might comment.
I have it in fairly sunny positions, although to be fair other plants will be shading it from midsummer. It grows out of the mortar on the rear face of my front garden wall, which is the shady side but is absolutely bone dry.
Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen' has been gradually unfurling over the past 6 weeks or so. I'm not sure if it's always this slow but I'm enjoying having plenty of time to appreciate the process.
My Polypodium vulgare had become a dull tangle of old leaves and I kept meaning to remove the oldest, but it was fiddly and I ended up cutting them all off, bar two or three new ones! New fronds are slowly emerging from what seems to be a large, very solid rhizome. Has anyone ever divided one of these? I would literally have to slice - there doesn't seem to be anything to prise apart.
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@LG_ Polypodium Vulgare grows a little too readily in drystone walls here so it's not a fern I grow deliberately. I do have to pull lots of it out of the walls, and it carries on growing if bits are left in so I would think it will cope with being cut into two.
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Just noticed the post about dryopteris. Will check that one out too.
Maybe other members have tried it near moving water and might comment.
They use it in the sunny borders at Iford Manor, I just remembered. Look to the left of the Agastache. It's quite tough.
My Polypodium vulgare had become a dull tangle of old leaves and I kept meaning to remove the oldest, but it was fiddly and I ended up cutting them all off, bar two or three new ones! New fronds are slowly emerging from what seems to be a large, very solid rhizome. Has anyone ever divided one of these? I would literally have to slice - there doesn't seem to be anything to prise apart.
I do have to pull lots of it out of the walls, and it carries on growing if bits are left in so I would think it will cope with being cut into two.