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 th...