Shade Gardening: Favorite Fern Picture, 1 by Noreaster

Noreaster wrote:
I'm glad to hear that you haven't had too much trouble controlling it, as I've read a lot of conflicting stuff about it. I have a small bank of them between some tall pines, which is set apart from the rest of my garden by a path. Hopefully I'll be ok. If I can control my Lily of the Valley, I think I'll be ok with the ferns...their roots couldn't possibly run as deep as LOTV. On the other hand, I think I've got them in pretty ideal conditions, so maybe I am in trouble! I'm curious to see how much they've spread this coming Spring. Sensitive ferns are ferns that just seem to magically pop up here, I've noticed. How old are your Hay scented ones, Marie?

Here is the real Seamus sitting among them now...to be replaced by a statue Seamus in the future.