Fern bed

Ferns 75cm apart

  • Dryopteris erythrosara (copper shield fern; dec.)
  • Polystichum setiferum (soft shield fern) polyblepharum (Japanese lace fern)
  • Dryopteris erythrosora (copper shield fern; dec) atrata (Shaggy wood fern; dec.)
  • Polystichum setiferum (soft shield fern) polyblepharum (Japanese lace fern)

Heucherellas planted between and in front of ferns

  • Heuchera Leuchtafer Heucherella Hopscotch
  • Heuchera Coral bells Heucherella Alabama Sunrise
  • Heuchera Ruby bells Heucherella Hopscotch

Make a small-scale dead hedge at the bottom of the trellis to keep back nettles and grass. Use pruning from apple, pear, helianthus, physostegia, hawthorn, and fallen branches from elder. Leave an animal hole?

Leave room for bluebells to come up in spring, in clumps, especially by deciduous ferns.
Transplant some foxgloves to back of bed.

Move lupin (to front bed), sweet william (home), antirrhinum, salvia (front) and phlox out of bed.
Poppy can stay.

Plant ferns with irregular spacing; feature log needed.

Spread decorative bark.