I have been repeatedly impressed by the marginal wood ferns (dryopteris marginalis) I planted this spring. More than once a fern had lost all its fronds (from falling branches, careless meter readers, etc.), looked dead for weeks, only for fiddleheads to appear seemingly out of nowhere.

#Plants #NativePlants #Gardening #Ferns #DryopterisMarginalis

I’m so close to being done I’m surprised I’m not already. I spent this weekend spreading mulch, but didn’t have enough mulch (or time) to finish.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/2919/landscape-project-2024-week-four

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The first two weeks of project execution were spent preparing the planting bed and acquiring materials.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/2906/landscape-project-2024-weeks-one-and-two

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How I arrived at the planting plan for our back path bed, which I am planting right now.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/2902/selecting-plants-for-a-native-plant-bed

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