**?? FOR BRIAN BJS FERNS IN OUR GARDEN??**

I think your garden is wonderful,ive two ferns in a pot with compost as i thought they had to be in shade and sort of boggy,my garden is clay and rocks and very dry,you have given me some good ideas,ty

I like your collection Dd, I like the way you and in Roy's garden they were dispersed between others plants. I have an addition to my collection of 2 now, it just appeared in a pot.

What a lovely lush collection of ferns. Angela, do you happen to know the name of the fern that grows wild in between my wooden edged borders? I shall put on a photo...it's not evergreen but it's beautiful, and it's spreading gently throughout the wooden edging.

It's a great collection of ferns.
The top photo (Harts tongue fern)....can I ask , is it in good draining soil or damp? Only, I plants one in my problem border which tends to stay damp and is in shade a large part of the day but it turned brown and died within a few weeks which surprised me. I would've thought, if that won't grow there, nothing will!!

What a wonderful collection !!

Lovely ferns, Dd!

Paul, I have a lot of harts' tongue ferns growing out of my garden walls. That would suggest they like it quite dry. And where they grow in my wild patch is fairly dry, too.

Paul that particular one is in the bog garden semi-shade, and you can see how lush it is......quite the opposite to Melch!!
Thanks Simbad, have only put the good looking ones on lol
Karen I will take a look.....
Siris we ran out of fernery space thats why they are dotted about....
Thanks Ladybug....

Fantastic collection! 10 from the bottom is a Polypodium. Only three are native to GB but the differences can be subtle. I think this is P. vulgare. Eighth from the top is a hard fern, Blechnum spicant - unusual in that like the roiyal fern it sends up a different looking fertile frond from the centre

Thanks Stera I thought it was Blechnum Spicant...... but was too tired to google it ...

I know the feeling...

Thanks Melchi and DD.....that is surprising, isn't it.....two so different planting situations where they thrive but, it didn't like my wet/shady border.

A lot grow wild round here but not in really wet places. They do well under trees and love an small overgrown old quarry. They grow in our garden (on a north facing pretty dry steep bank shaded by mature trees). I think shade is more critical than too much wet. The only time I tried to grow one on purpose, under an old yew tree at our last house, it promptly died, so too dry is as bad as too wet. It seems to be perhaps its a humid atmosphere they enjoy.

You have soooo many, I like ferns too, very envious of your super collection.

Dottydaisy, enjoyed your blog very much. Thank you for sharing this beauty with us. What a great collection of ferns!
Like them too. Think, at the eighth photo is Asplenium trichomanes.

Uma so pleased you enjoyed my blog, we do love our ferns....

Adding to my favourites?

Uma, I think you're right. I didn't look closely enough. There are lots of dead stems that could be the remains of fertile fronds that the asplenium doesn't have but perhaps they are just from old dead fronds.

i love the ferns i have a lot of them inside and out, i would love to have that big daddy!!!!!

They look great
Missed your blog somehow will come back to and see if I can add any names over the next couple of days thanks for showing them.
B

I think some ferns are tolerant of quite a wide variety of conditions. I have one huge one in a shady corner, but his offspring are across the garden in the sunniest part beside the lavender and rosemary.

Vjd we have 4 tree ferns in the garden,they vary in size, they are all loving the rain, which saves me from watering them!
Thanks Brian, I think the very last one is Dryopteris affinis cristata The King?
Uma and Stera have named a couple for me....

Steragram, I know the name of that one because it's native for our country.

Aspleniums grow here too Uma and so do the Blechnums.
I just wasn't thinking....
We have a wide variety of wild ferns here but they are often so similar its hard to remember which is which as you often need to examine them very closely. (That doesn't apply to these two though...)

Dotty, just revisited your fern blog (in my favourites) :-)
Beautiful!

Dotty I don't remember seeing it but brain is a bit beat up these days.
Did i ever put any names to them I can name a few ,be a good grower that could name that lot. do you still want any names ?

It gets worse just looked up the list I did see it.open the cage.

Haha Brian

Dawn, thanks I quite enjoyed reading it too.... you tend to forget well I do lol..have bought a load more since this was written, have made a fernery at the top of the garden!!
Brian join the club, have given up worrying what they are called, if a visitor asks I tell them to take a phone photo and use an app to tell them.......

A fernery!! How lovely. I forget where my plants are, I have a few ferns dotted but I’ve never really appreciated them, but ferns are my new thing :)

We love them, wonderful plants.....