Dryopteris

#fern

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@matewe thanks Cori 😛

@gjones I’m sorry to hear that 😔 hope they’ll come back with a vengeance 🤞🏻a couple of mine struggled in the heat but fortunately they’re in full shade so have a little protection

#fern #spores #foliagefriday

Great photo 💚💚💚

They're unusual things not being flowering plants 💚

@anges thank you Ange ☺️

@jeatacake they really are! Where do the spores even come from 😜 strange but beautiful things 💚

@gjones thanks Katy 😊

They're certainly a bit mysterious. The spores just seem to appear. Quite how, I have no idea! Very different to flowering plants, who's "ways" are not that dissimilar to animals! ☺

@jeatacake these seem to go the ‘Mary’ way about things whereas flowers are less immaculate conception-y 🤣🤣🤣

I'm saying nothing! 🙊☺

@jeatacake 😂🤣

#foliagefriday

#foliagefriday

I adore Fern's!💘😍

@ShelleySnyder they’re fascinating aren’t they 🤩

Very fascinating! I love the fiddlehead's in particular!💘😍

This proves it-I don’t have enough ferns

Looks very spiney 😆

@ShelleySnyder they are like little creatures unfurling into life 😛

Exactly Kerry! Good description!👍💘😍

@janetandjim 😂 can never have too many 😉

@ublaszko it’s quite robust but not as violent as it looks 😂

Must check on my fern. Haven't seen it since last year but it looked still to be alive. 😅

@ublaszko I didn’t know you had a fern 😜 reminds me, I’m still waiting on my Ursula’s red fern to arrive - couldn’t not have it with that name 😛

Helpfully named as “fern” 🤣

@cyndi 🤣 named! 😉

Polystichum (Shield Fern) I think 🤔🤔

Don’t you just love those vague plant labels! Well at least it narrowed it down to fern, and not something like ‘foliage plant’ 😂

@pelly thank you Jane 😁 definitely looks like one 👍🏻

@richard.spicer.7906 well it was from Tesco so I guess the fact they new it was a plant is a bonus 😂 the people that supply them must know names of the plants so don’t understand why they can’t label them properly 😜 still, at £2.50 I can’t complain too much

You are welcome Kerry. We ought to start a campaign to get supermarkets to label their plants properly!! 👍👍

@pelly I’m with you on that! Surely it can’t be that hard for them. Someone in the supply chain knows what they’re selling 😂

Exactly. I think I might email a couple and see what sort of response I get. 🤔🤔

@pelly that’s a thought! I might go the same 😁 can’t hurt to at least ask 😛

Definitely Kerry @kez001uk 👍👍