Shade Gardening: Favorite Fern Picture, 1 by StPaulPeg

StPaulPeg wrote:
No ferns in this picture and off topic - I'm posting this in defense of bishop's weed. This is the north side of my old house, with a steep drop off down to my neighbor's fence covered with grape vine. The grass wouldn't grow there, and one year I killed all the grass and spent a ton of money to put in mostly lamium. The next winter was extremely cold, and the lamium didn't make it. I despaired in the spring, as my slope started eroding into my nieghbor's yard until my neighbor gave me a bunch of bishop's weed she'd taken from the north side of her house. The bishop's weed did the trick, the slope was saved, and in the last five years it's never crossed the fence line back into her yard!