little ladies

i have an abundance of five types of ferns: interrupted, ostrich, lady, sensitive, and maidenhair. they all come up at different rates. so, while my ostrich ferns are already thigh high, my lady ferns still look like this. while i am so vigilant to their growth in the spring, i am far less attentive to the rate at which they die back in the fall. i don’t think their is any correlation to the two timings: such as ‘first in, first out’ for example. but i must make a note to pay more attention in the autumn.

lady fern new growth