Ferns and More

We took a family hike on Memorial Day.  It was a cloudy damp day but temperatures were cool so we didn't get over heated climbing to this overlook.

 

Here are daughter and son in law from Buffalo.  Granddaughter #3 not pictured.

I took lots of fern photos and some interesting rock formations too.

We saw evidence of a pileated woodpecker making a nesting cavity - lots of wood scraps on the forest floor.  Above was the cavity.

Here's another on but older.

Tiny ferns growing on rocks.

Above and below some fern group just with vivid color selected for photo below.

Ferns are up through out my yard too.  More on that to come.

It was a good week of family time.

Ferns - Just Love Them

One thing I've read about deer and keeping them out of the yard is to use ferns amongst the favorite deer plants like hosta.  Deer don't like ferns.  I had planted lots of ferns in my Glen Garden over the years, but now am encouraging the ones I have and adding to them.

I'm not good with names of ferns.  These were transplanted from my woods.

I know this one as a Boston fern and its not winter hardy except in my vestibule.  I've had it for several years and its very pot bound.  It's sitting on an old chair under the tree and despite my forgetting to water it, has done well there.

These are also transplants from the woods.

I believe this is called a cinnamon fern because of the leaf color when it first comes out.

I do know these as Japanese painted ferns.  There are three there that started very small and now have filled out well.

Here's is another from the woods that is intermingled with the hosta.

I've let this fern take over too much in this perennial bed.

Another cinnamon fern at the arbor blocking deer entrance to the backyard.

A miniature fern in A's Garden.

One of many of the ostrich ferns.

Ferns intermingled with hosta and other plants in the Glen Garden.

The Glen Garden

The glen garden is along the edge of the woods where the forest conservation area begins.  If you stand  here you can often hear the stream down in the glen gurgling as it travels along its way.  This is the perfect spot for shade loving plants. Many of these were gifts, some I bought and many of the ferns were transplants from the woods.

Walk along the edge with me and enjoy the sights.

We'll start at the eastern end and head west.

This is the west end looking back to the east.

Back to the start.  See those branches back there?  I hope to build a log fence with help from Dan this summer.