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| 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?
This scan I did years ago. I believe it is a sword fern - Polystichum munitum