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Ferns are so adaptable

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Ferns, here, are a winner. I like them, they like me, and my mission is to scour every nursery I visit for less usual, preferably evergreen varieties. Asplenium species and Cyrtomium fortunei do well and I also like small, unassuming hard fern, Blechnum spicant. This year the search for new acquisitio­ns has yielded soft, grey-green Cheilanthe­s lanosa, which keeps its leaves but which will prefer some sun, together with spiky semi-evergreen Dryopteris filixmas ‘Linearis Polydactyl­a’. And while Dryopteris erythrosor­a is deciduous, it’ll produce new foliage that’s orange-copper in tone, which will lift the other dark greens nicely.

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Cyrtomium fortunei does well in my garden

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