Ferns 2017

[fredg]

You do now Shelagh 

[ChrisB]

I saw this Fern in several gardens during the Czech Conference garden visits. Can anyone please identify it?

[fermi de Sousa]

Maybe Asplenium ceterach, Rustyback fern. Synonym, Ceterach officinarum?
cheers
fermi

[sokol]

Yes, I would confirm that.

[ChrisB]

Thank you both, going to a fern nursery this weekend, want to try to get one!

[shelagh]

You will probably find one growing out of old mortar, there are dozens on an old railway bridge not far from us.

[ChrisB]

Hmmmm but would it grow if I could find one that way Shelagh?  They do say they grow best in a wall, but they were looking good in gardens over there.  Wonder if it's the same one, my recollection is of silvery rather than bronze/brown reverse.

[Maggi Young]

Ian's Bulb Log looks at a garden without flowers this week....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Aug021501665440BULB_LOG_3117.pdf



Phegopteris connectilis has already been  discussed as being Cystopteris fragilis 

[Tony Willis]

In the redwoods Oregon

[Hoy]

Ferns are interesting! I have quite a few in my garden as slugs seem to avoid them

Here are some in their natural habitats:


Cryptogramma crispa in the shade of Athyrium distentifolium. Usually the Cryptogramma prefers more sun.




Athyrium distentifolium




Polystichum lonchitis




A bad picture but it shows the typical habitat for Gymnocarpium dryopteris




Not exactly a fern. Diphasiastrum complanatum ssp complanatum

[Hoy]

Ian's Bulb Log looks at a garden without flowers this week....
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Maggi, you and Ian certainly have a lot of desirable weeds! And I mean both ferns and other plants 

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, you and Ian certainly have a lot of desirable weeds! And I mean both ferns and other plants 

As time goes on, Trond, I think the whole garden will be full of "volunteer" plants  - it suits us.  There comes a time when we just wants plants which can PROVE they want to live with us!

[ian mcdonald]

I also have some native ferns in the garden. Rusty back, maidenhair spleenwort, holly fern, mountain fern, oak fern, beech fern, hard shield fern, soft shield fern, marsh fern, royal fern, parsley fern, common polypody, hard fern, crested buckler, scaly male fern, green spleenwort and hay scented buckler. The habitats in my garden are not the usual ones for the species but they don,t seem to mind.

[Rick R.]

What's wrong with this picture?

[Rick R.]

The above pic is upside down!

Pellaea glabella


This particular wild colony lives under a limestone overhang in a prairie here in Minnesota.