Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs drought and salt are shrugged

drought and salt are shrugged off

and by late summer some flowers give way to aromatic

espalier-fashion

a specimen by a path or door where the scent will be met

strap-like petals that spread apart like the legs of a starfish or a spider

Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs drought and salt are shruggedOsmunda regalis, the royal fern, is a plant of stature and quiet nobility, at home where the woods remember water and time moves slowly. The genus Osmunda gives its name to an ancient family, the Osmundaceae, sometimes called the flowering ferns, with a fossil lineage that reaches back past the Jurassic; a royal fern in the garden is a living relic of a far older flora. The natural range runs from Nova Scotia to Florida in North America, and on