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

wallaby1 wrote:
Hi kelly, thanks, do you want another?

I think I should keep some spore off that prehistoric fern this year, I have never seen one like it, looking at the fronds (normal ones) it could even be a tree fern. I am not sufficiently expert enough to know, not expert at all in fact! I perhaps should send a pic to the experts, the people I bought most of my new ferns from get their spore from a grower of specialist ferns, it would be interesting to see if they knew of it. I use Irish moss peat, darn the garden centre doesn't sell it now, bought 4 bags of some other and it's mostly a 'substitute' organic 'peat reduced', no good to me, I have loads of my own organic.

Here is Dryopteris wallichiana, a division from the original plant. The new fronds are really pretty, it can grow to 5 feet in the right conditions.