Just a girl with a hammer

Tag: lady fern

  • Oh thank goodness

    Oh thank goodness

    Spring is here–the lady ferns arrived! I was so worried they would never show up. I have no idea how this lady fern took up residence with a sword fern. I have tried to extricate them from each other but they seem to be in love. So I let them cohabitate.

    SINNERS!

    In the summer the lady fern really takes over, just like a woman (ba dum shish!).

    I moved a bunch of lady ferns in the side entrance last fall and they have yet to pop up again. I don’t know if they’re dead, pouting, or just traumatized. My wild ginger, which every book and website promised would take over this area, has sat like a bump on a log for two years, neither dividing nor conquering. But if you get very close you can see that it’s flowering.

    Asaraum caudatum
    Of course, all the ginger I planted will have to be moved, since I had the cedar tree underlimbed and this area is no longer shady. I have to rethink this whole area and plant things that like dry, sunny spots (can you hear Loree’s pulse quickening?).
    The first tulips arrived! I honestly can’t remember what these are, only that Greg wanted orange bulbs so I planted orange bulbs. What baby wants, baby gets (as long as it’s tulips).
    The tufted-hair grass (Deschamsia cespitosa) is growing by leaps. The common rush (Juncus effusus) sits and waits.

    Mojiiiiiiiiitoooooooooooooooooosssssssssss!

    My climbing hydrangea (Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Moonlight’) is leafing out but I hear it can take four years for this vine to really get going. So I have to be patient. Perhaps I’ll make myself a cocktail to pass the time.

    The leaves of this tiny trillium are not much bigger than my nail and I’m so pleased that the house painters didn’t destroy them. I actively fretted about my stupid trilliums.

    I moved a potted flowering currant here and I think the hot pink blooms are looking nice against the new paint job. So I guess it was worth all the worrying.

    I cannot bring myself to trim my sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ of its summer seedheads. They are too pretty.

    But you know what I should be doing, instead of taking pictures? Getting all of these in the ground.

    My shipments from Annie’s Annuals and High Country Gardens came this weekend while I was in California, helping my niece turn 8. I love my niece but do you know what torture that was? To know all of this was waiting for me?

    Happy spring! For reals this time.

  • And now, your moment of zen.

    And now, your moment of zen.

    We destroyed our yard this weekend. Pictures of the carnage soon!

    In the meantime, here’s something pretty to look at.

    Deer fern, columbine, lady fern, swoon!