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You all seem to have left out my favourite,becasse(woodcock).

It does like the conditions. All of my ferns are native; I just try to be a thoughtful steward. Ostrich, hay-scented, cinnamon, interrupted, sensitive (SO primitive!)...quite a list.

Is the cinnamon Osmunda?
I don't know "interrupted fern" - the expert (not me) thinks she has heard of it, but not sure either. American native?
Have you come across Naud Burnett?

Sandy was a bit constipated, and asked Julian for some advice. Julian recommended chewing on the leaves of a particular fern.

The next day Julian asked Sandy how it went, to which he answered " Marvellous, with fronds like these, who needs enemas."

That's terrible, pastille! Like it.

P.S. the expert informs me that "interrupted" is another species of Osmunda (claytoniae?)

No, haven't heard of that, ChrisE. Will look it up. I'm particularly fond of the cinnamon fern. Here's the interrupted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmunda_claytoniana

When I was a child I thought something kept eating it.

Found the nursery! Neat!

I see what you mean about "interrupted". One the expert doesn't grow.

Naud is a "he", not a fern, though he could morph into one. He runs a very big fern nursery somewhere in southern USA (Texas?). I've met him and his wife on fern trips abroad.

Yes, I see that, but it's the name of the nursery too, isn't it? Here's the cinnamom...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmundastrum_cinnamomeum

The pictures don't do it justice; it's magnificent (I think). My wife's sister lives in the woods in Rhode Island, and the long driveway to her house goes through a swamp that's filled with these- breathtaking. On my land they grow in a sort of little valley in the woods, and they're very well behaved.