a feast for the eyes

we have five different native ferns on our property. my favorite is the delicate maidenhair. my husband’s is the ostrich fern because of the edible fiddleheads. look at these young stipes of the maidenhair ferns! everything about them is fantastic–the color, the delicacy, the graceful spiral shapes. who needs edible? this a feast for the eyes!

maidenhair fern sprouts (Adiantum)