The fern by the water in the featured image here comes from the edge of the Dumfriesshire Garden. This large plant with its gorgeous fronds spreading gently down to the water of the Pennyland Burn is growing wild. I’m fortunate to have such beauty in the ‘borrowed landscape’.
There are indeed many native ferns in and around the garden: from the ubiquitous bracken, to harts tongue, to spleenwort, to several more I can’t name. This hasn’t deterred me in recent years from acquiring decorative ferns of various names, forms and colours, which I have added to newly created borders in particular. We can see here some newcomers for 2024 that have really taken a hold. When seen on social media earlier in the year they prompted some approval, and with it, an invitation to a nearby castle, where the fernery holds over 100 different specimens!
It’s been a pretty good year for ferns!
The full list of pieces that make up my A-Z in the Dumfriesshire Garden in 2024 can be found here: https://davidgrahamclark.net/a-z-of-the-dumfriesshire-garden-in-2024/
Quotidian 
Gorgeous! I’ve long believed that a garden without ferns is incomplete.
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Thank you! We are in perfect agreement.
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