Asplenium Scolopendrium

Have wanted this for my Woodland garden for ages, couldn't find it in the GC's...4 euros...whoopee...
Having to wash them all with warm water, they all got covered with bits of bark...lol....

Strange you should put that one on today, I have one that somehow got left behind when I got rid of the parent two or three years ago. It was so tiny, so I potted it up and it has grown so much I have repotted it this morning. Just taken a few cuttings of some of my heuchera as well. Why ? I keep asking myself....

Cinders you must have lost count of your Heucheras :o))
When do you normally split yours...after flowering....only my one and only split was an accident....:o))

Glad the little one is doing great, I'm just about to go and plant mine now....

I don't really know when is the correct time, but I do usually split them after flowering. I think I shall have to have a count up Sue, have quite a few the same at the moment.

When you grow them from seed, how do you know what they are...it's it just down to experience...as I remember you saying that they can be any Heuchera type...You're very good with them...:o)) The Heuchera Queen...lol

You flatter me ! Well you don't know what they are, as they don't come true from seed, and I doubt if I will do that again, it was just a challenge really to see if I could do it.

ok got ya...:o))

This looks like one I have on my pond side, does it have ridges on the under side of the leaves Sue?

Yes...that's right Barbara, you can just see on the left, the underside...Nice isn't it...

It is lovely, I had forgotten I had this one, just been and seen it again, it is a great little plant. It tends to hide up on the pondside under all the other foliage. I have been and uncovered it aqain. There is another one up there too, no idea what that one is called either. lol. terrible with names. But to be quite fair to me they have been in all the time that the pond has been there and that is a long time now. Bit like I am getting older and older lol. but eh who cares, a few more wrinkles and a few more grey hairs no problems. Just so long as I can get out there and be in the garden that is all I ask for, remembering long names is not really a necessity, being in the garden is all that matters to me. lol. It is raining at the moment, just finished pulling nettles taller than me out of my chook run. Amazing how they manage to grow. Have left them in a heap for the chickens to pick over when they have died down. Paul's friend brought me home some new bantams will try and get a picture when the weather picks up. They are Golden Lacewing Winedots they are beautiful. Have them with my Lavendar Pekins at the moment, they have settled in well. I had no idea they were coming a present for hatching him some other eggs. Think if the truth be told he had too many hatch. lol. We have or should I say Paul has got to be quite good at incubating eggs. lol. Hope you are not getting this wet weather it has rained most of day.

I would love to be able to plant it around the pond Barbara, but there just isn't room...not soil room anyway...glad you found yours...it is a striking plant...
How lovely new chooks..I look forward to your pics...Apart from the eggs you Incubate, do you use the others for eating etc...I wish I had a couple more bantams, they are easy going , and my little Lulu, she might only have little legs, but if one of the other Reds have a go at her, she stretches up as tall as her little legs will go, and has a go back...She's started laying again now....She's White with frilly feathers around her legs...I can't remember her name....I lost my two favourite Reds, to old age, and they were so docile and used to come in the garden with me sometimes...You're lucky you can even grow nettles, ours don't give anything a chance its gone before it gets a chance to grow...and I give them loads of greens tooo
No tbh I don't care about the long names either, I just copy what's on the label, to me its another Fern...I planted it my little Woodland, it looks ok...
No it's been 70+ today, the rain finally stopped yesterday.....It's the main Holiday time for France, so I expect everyone is keeping their fingers crossed the weather stays good here....:o)))

Yes Crissue we eat our chicken eggs and give them away to friends and family. Still raining here, hoping for some better weather tomorrow. Managed to weed a border just before tea and then it hasn't stopped raining since. :o( Quite blustery and cool too. Fingers crossed for some warmer weather tomorrow.

Yep fingers x'd....

Lovely plant Sue :)

This is tongue fern is'nt it.

Hart's Tongue Fern...Yes it is Clarice...You know when we lived on the I.O.W. we used to see these in abundance growing wild on stream banks etc...