Shade Gardening: Who is beginning to take serious looks at the catalogs now?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I think I did see spore on the prehistoric one, on the backs like normal. the tree ferns make black hard pods on the backs in pairs I think! along the individual pinnae, then they burst and have loads of fluffy brown spore. I did scrape some off and grow some but it self set anyway, and trying to keep it in the house over winter isn't as successful as in the greenhouse, it dries up. These are very hardy, they were only young when we had prolonged frost in 2001/2 down to at least 16F and it didn't touch them, I kept them in the greenhouse the winter before when tiny.

A pic of the polystichum aculeatum in full frond, it is robust and interesting, behind the abutilon. A frond of dryopteris erythrosora at front, it has been a bit weak but took off last year, it was a cold summer. Another good plant there, pulmonaria Majeste with silver leaves.