Echinaceas are real dazzlers in the late-summer border: sturdy daisies standing erect with flowers that resemble sets of spinning saucers. The colourful sun-ray petals surround bronzed, almost metallic cones. These prickly centres also give echinacea its name, for Ekhînos is Greek for hedgehog.
Choosing and Growing Ferns in Your Garden
28.06.2023 - 11:47 / treehugger.com
During the Victorian era, there was a craze in the British Isles for ferns. Ferns were collected from the wild (often sadly to the point of destroying precious habitats) and grown in gardens and homes, often in specialist planting schemes called ferneries, where numerous species could be displayed and enjoyed.
While I certainly would not advocate doing what the Victorians did and grabbing ferns from the wild, there is a lot to like about the fern gardens they created. If you have a suitably shaded garden where the right environment for ferns can be provided, then creating your own fernery could be a great idea.
Ferns are fascinating. Dating back some 360 million years, modern fern families still around today first emerged around 145 million years ago. They are vascular plants which reproduce via spores rather than seeds and do not flower.
One thing that can make ferns very valuable to gardeners is that they are excellent choices for shady spots.
Many ferns can thrive in a north-facing border or below mature trees, and some can even cope with deep shade. Ferns can be found to handle a range of environmental conditions, coping with everything from very damp and boggy wetland to dry shade.
When choosing ferns for your garden, it is important to understand that there are different degrees of shade and also different types of shaded areas distinguished in part by the moisture levels in the soil and the general humidity. Different ferns are suited to different growing conditions.
It can be helpful to think about choosing ferns for one of three different habitat types:
Here in the United Kingdom, some of the ferns suited to a very damp and boggy location include royal ferns, ostrich ferns, lady ferns, and sensitive ferns, to
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