Athyrium filix-femina - 27 August 2026

My Rosemary considered the Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) to be an ordinary weed and she would remove any of them in our Kerrisdale garden. In my Kitsilano deck garden it crops up here and there and especially outside on the path to the back lane. Today I noticed that some of them had this brown colour. I see in this and announcement that autumn is here and that like my hostas they will disappear to come back next year.

I keep repeating this same negative mantra that everything I am doing these days is for the last time. I am not sure I will be around next year to the promise of an emerging garden. There are a few roses in bloom now. Are they last grasps for life?

I miss the warmth of being next to my Rosemary. Fall is about impending death. The Indigenous peoples in BC have the belief that if you survive winter you will live for another year.

Will that be my case? Will I see nice green Lady Ferns fronds in the spring?