Rock ferns

[Olga Bondareva]

Olga Your photos are beautiful. Epiphytic fern Polypodium ussuriense  is very interesting. I did not know this fern before. Is it growing in your garden?

Thank you Zenon!
It had being growing for 3-4 years in my garden slowly dieing. It's a very specific fern needing air moisture.

[Olga Bondareva]

Osmunda claytoniana

[Hoy]

Olga Your photos are beautiful. Epiphytic fern Polypodium ussuriense  is very interesting. I did not know this fern before. Is it growing in your garden?

Thank you Zenon!
It had being growing for 3-4 years in my garden slowly dieing. It's a very specific fern needing air moisture.

Something for my garden then!

I grow two different Osmunda but not claytonia. Seems to be worth to try

[Olga Bondareva]

Something for my garden then!

Yes! Good idea to try it at humid moss on stones.

I grow two different Osmunda but not claytonia. Seems to be worth to try

It's spores shouldn't be dried and need to be sown immediately.

[Olga Bondareva]

Thelipteris phegopteris


Athyrium filix-femina Victoriae

Strange thing this fern has being grown for some years in my garden. I like it very much for grace. But I've never can't shoot whole plant.

[annew]

I know what you mean, Olga, from a distance it just seems to disappear!

[Tim Ingram]

Ferns are so beautifully photogenic and this thread really seems to have taken off - there must be a lot of 'pteridophiles'! Our garden is often very dry in summer and at first I thought ferns would not grow well. However, I have tried more and more over the years and find that many are very tolerant. My favourites must be the polystichums which look good almost the whole year round; I am also trying more dryopteris and am especially keen on rock ferns for the sand bed and screes. The lovely 'Lady Fern' does less well, but some forms of this are amongst the most beautiful of all (I have one called 'Axminster'). Unfortunately all my photos are slides so I must take digital images this year. I particularly like Zen's photos in natural settings and Olga's super portraits.

[Hoy]

Thelipteris phegopteris

Athyrium filix-femina Victoriae
Strange thing this fern has being grown for some years in my garden. I like it very much for grace. But I've never can't shoot whole plant.

Ah, for some I know!

I think you have made a very good attempt to catch it, Olga

[Hoy]

Not epilithic but  epiphytic growing ferns and neither hardy but interesting in the rainforest of Kilimanjaro. Not the best pictures either as my camera didn't like the humid air.

[Sarmienta]

i like those habitat pictures 
I also have some ferns in my garden and one of them looks a lot like those at the kilimanjaro.
Pyrrosia lingua from Japan/China is hardy -20 C usda zone 7-6 .and it survived some winters in my garden,but it grow a lot better in a unheated greenhouse.
I have problems with sending pictures,i think they are too big.

[Hoy]

i like those habitat pictures 
I also have some ferns in my garden and one of them looks a lot like those at the kilimanjaro.
Pyrrosia lingua from Japan/China is hardy -20 C usda zone 7-6 .and it survived some winters in my garden,but it grow a lot better in a unheated greenhouse.
I have problems with sending pictures,i think they are too big.

Resizing pictures, try this site: http://www.efpage.de/eTinypic.html

Got it from bulborum but I haven't tried it yet as I have a Mac.

[Hoy]

Thank you Cliff! I tried to tell Sarmienta what to do but I have a program (Color sync) that works fine although it takes some more keyboard work :-)
Maybe I'll try your recommendation!

[peter hood]

The Adiantum venustum is excellent for us as well. There is A. capillus veneris in Colorado (and further north) but always near warm water (hot springs and suchlike).

 

I thought it was time I added something to the conversation, as another person for whom ferns was a first love, both in the wild and the garden. I don't grow many at the moment - but I will doso again sometime!

I noted this comment with interest; I have never seen A. Capillus veneris in the wild in Britain - there are various sea side locations - but the picture  is of what I think is this species, growing between the paving slabs alongside the Roman Bath in Bath - hot springs and the like.

Where I have seen this plant in the wild is at the base of Limestone cliffs in deep gorges, Gorge de Tarn (France) and Cares Gorge (Spain) 

[Maggi Young]

Hello Peter, a warm welcome... and happy new year to you!

I was just thinking that hot springs are not exactly plentiful in these islands when I read the location of your photo... how very appropriate!


When one sees ferns making a home in some very odd and supposedly inhospitable places, it does give the lie to their delicate and often ethereal appearance, doesn't it ?
Fascinating plants... though I could wish my ability to distinguish them was better. 

[ruweiss]

Yesterday in our meadow garden