Dryopteris x australis Pollinator and the Florida panhandle

and the Florida panhandle

unexpected show in the winter garden

and deer tend to pass the fine foliage by

a camellia that flowers when the others have long since finished

Dryopteris x australis Pollinator and the Florida panhandleDryopteris australis is a fern that cannot, strictly speaking, reproduce, and is all the more vigorous for the lack. This is a natural hybrid, thrown wherever two Southern wood ferns grow within a spores reach of one another: the log fern, Dryopteris celsa, and the southern wood fern, Dryopteris ludoviciana. The cross comes out sterile, setting spores that never amount to anything, so the fern cannot seed itself across a bed the way a large fern