Seven Autumn Ferns Added To The Stumpery - May 202

Number 19 on my 2026 to-do list was to upgrade the stumpery.  That means improving the hard features (like fountain, stumps, bench, etc), but also the plantings.  I wrote in the list: 

The thing that I need to add here are even more Autumn Ferns. See #15. I have some Autumn Ferns and LOVE them. More is better.

#15 is "Stay focused by using the concept of Repetition vs. new."  Those two items - repetiton + Stumpery plantings collided when I found a bunch of quart-sized Autumn Ferns at the nursery.  They were nice-sized and healthy looking:

I ended up buying seven of them for the Stumpery. 

I spaced them out behind the front row of All Gold Hakonechloa grasses and inter-planted with some of the existing Crested Surf Japanese Painted Ferns.  This area was mostly blank.

There are two small Autumn Ferns that came back around here, so these seven make it nine for this area.  See below for the seven new ferns planted in the bed.  The stumps for the Stumpery are on the right of this photo:

I planted these to the left in front of that bench because I'm envisioning a little "path" from the lawn to this seating area walking right past the stumps (on your right) and these ferms (on your left).

The All Golds are screaming for some groundcover in front of them, aren't they?