OK here are some fern pix i love.
Favorite Fern Picture
again
5 fingered maidenhair
Beautiful ferns, everyone! Bev, I just your cinnamon ferns, I actually ordered a couple bare roots for myself this weekend...I have never seen one (I mean not in pictures) and I can't wait!
Great fern picks wonderearth. I love the lighting.
The lighting or lack there of in the redwood understory is magical : )
Wondereath: I love that 5-fingered Maidenhair; that's a new one for me.
I agree that the area under the redwoods is magical. I have a little corner of my yard filled with redwood trees and I'm still trying to get things to grow in the dark. I've found it's actually hard to photograph under there so hat's off to you for the photos. Here's my little redwood space.
I'm enjoying all the Ferns! The thread is getting a little long so I thought I would start a new one: Favorite Fern picture Part 2
Here's the link -- http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/850790/
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Thank you Doss
This is really a wonderful thread because we can see lovely photos of the ferns.
My two more
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Love the coke box or whatever. That's at least as fun as the ferns!
Doss,
Have you looked into natives that grow under redwoods? I have some cool books about native plant communities that talk about companion plants for redwoods. Just a few are
flowers: Wester bleeding heart, red columbine (Aquiligia formosa), Smith's Fairy bells (Disporum smithii), trilliums, redwood violet, rue-anemone, california harebell, western heartsease (viola ocellata), mimulus dentatus
ground cover: insideout flower, wild ginger, forest anemone,
shrubs: pink flowering current, Rosa gymnocarpa
And I don't have a single one of those except wild ginger that has been in my garden for about 3 years and never spread. Button fern and astilbe seem to like it there. I've copied down your list and will do some research.
Fluffy ferns, I feel like hugging them! What are they?
