Last one looks a bit like Cyrtomium falcatum
Second could well be a Hart's Tongue fern.

Thank you, OWD. They're unlikely to be anything weird and wonderful - just 'bog standard.'

Top pic extreme left Polypodium

I agree with Owd the 2nd is a hart's tongue [Asplenium scolopendrium] and I also think the 3rd is Cyrtomium falcatum.

I think the Polypodium is probably P vulgare

Thanks, SBG. I did look at photos online, but found it hard to tell differences and couldn't find the last one at all.

Where I live the Polypodium and the Harts tongue grow wild in great profusion.Don't use acid soil for these. I tried my hand at propagating some Harts Tongue last autumn (a very long slow business!) and now have 6 ready for planting out and another dozen and a half of very little ones. Didn't expect so many!

Interesting, Yorks. How lovely to produce new babies. Patience is rewarded! I hope to put these in pots to start with on our shady patio. I shall take your advice re. compost. Thank you.

Hope they do well for you. They're a peaceful sort of plant if you know what I mean...

I do. Some plants are for looking at, others for living with..

What a good way of putting it!

I have baby harts tongues [and Polystichiums] growing in the wall down the back of the greenhouse. They are a firm favourite and yes happy in chalky soils. In fact all 3 you have grow happily in my garden.

I love ferns for their gracefulness and the fact they are a subtle foil for many other plants.

They'll be enjoying the still most air round there! We haven't got any proper walls at all unfortunately, but the old ones in the village tend to have spleenwort. I knew nothing about wild ferns before we came here so still have a long way to go. All the big ones were Dryopteris to me until I learned how much more there is to know,lol.

Yes, SBG, I wanted more gentle greens in the garden and ferns fit the bill. I have a long way to go finding out about them. I decided to risk a few pounds on these, and hope I don't kill them!

Your comment about dryopteris, Yorks, made me smile. Looking at the first fern and pics online I thought it could have been one of many similar varieties. Thank goodness for the knowledgeable people on GoY.

If anyone wants a detailed breakdown of how to grow Ferns from spores I have one somewhere on the computer.

Did you try it Owd? This was my second attempt - the first one was just a Dryopteris(I think) years ago, and I got so many I gave most of the babies ones to the school biology dpt. in case they were useful for learning about the mechanism, which blew me away when I first learned!!!Nature is so surprising sometimes...

Years ago when I sold plants I grew quite a few Fern species from spores from various Seed sources. Only failures were with a lot of the New Zealand ones.

Never tried from bought spores, only local ferns. Very rewarding (but only of fun as there are so many wild ones...)