Re: hostas
- Subject: Re: [SG] hostas
- From: r*@NETSYNC.NET
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:13:08 -0400
- Importance: Normal
Bill
I read your notes and pieces in the Fern Quarterly with intrest. Have
used ferns in my landscap designs for years, but only in the last few,
have I seriously started a collection at Eagle Bay Gardens, our display
gardens at Dunkirk, NY. We have ( I think ) sucessfully used ferns and
hostas in a blend with hundersd of other shade plants for a nice effect.
Have I am intreased in just about any ferns that will work in my garden
and am now selling quite a large selection , along with rare plants and
hostas. I found ( last year) a "Tassel Fern" with semi crests. The
ends of the foliage turn in. I guess "crisped" would be a more accurate
term for this. Also reciently found a crested 'Ghost' Has that one
been found before? Much to learn about ferns. If you get up this way ,
plan to stop.
Thanks
Ran Lydell
Eagle Bay Gardens
10749 Bennett Road
Dunkirk
716 366-8844 or 969-1688 or 792-7581
Most of the "small" ones are too large for me and
> started to overwhelm (and overstay) their welcome. I will keep some of
> the
> dwarf ones, but even these will be restricted and confined to their
> assigned
> places. Two of my favorite shade plants are ferns, in their infinite
> variety, and Epimedium and the choices here are exploding.
>
> Sorry, if I have tread on anyone's toes, but "to each his own".
>
> Bill Plummer in the land of the Painted Post (NY).
>
>
