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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I think I will... maybe! 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    LG_ said:
    I think I will... maybe! 
    Oh heck! I thought it was just me who was so definitely unsure.....
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    @Silver surfer we love all ferns and in our "wild" garden they are allowed to grow where they wont. They grow in full sun, shade, under shrubs and out in the open. They are so .....exciting to see the new fronds unfurling and all unfurling onto different fronds.
    We do have "designated" areas for ferns but being ferns they do what they want and we have them all over our garden and we don't mind at all.
    Beautiful plants and as you say often underrated.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2022
    An interesting, detailed, expert's talk on ferns. Slightly alarming sound effects. :D

    I love his rant about useless keys. A man after my own heart.


  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I went to RHS Harlow Carr on Thursday. Ferns EVERYWHERE! 

    I wanted to live there. Definitely my type of garden. 

    Couldn’t see a name on this one though. 

    Anyone have any ideas? 


  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    It looks like an adiantum, maidenhair fern. Adiantum aleuticum possibly?
    Though they appear so delicate I find them quite hardy here in Cumbria  
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Looking online it does indeed look like an Adiantum. Perhaps A. pedatum? Not one I know 'in the flesh' though, so the scale may be wrong.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes it is an adiantum I actually inherited a large pot of it as I had always admired it. Sometimes the stems are more brown so worth looking for a black stemmed one. It was treasured by it's original owner, I kept it going in shade for a few years and then lost it over winter.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    My first thought was also Adiantum pedatum (which I grow), but I don't know many other Adiantums to put that guess into context.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @micearguers Yes that is it Adiantum pedatum. I had palmate in my head which I knew was wrong. I am only aware of this one but it can vary, the really black stems are the best. Thank you.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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