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Lol... I never met a fern I didnt love. The ‘Mossy Mama’ are cool because they produce little platelets on their fronds. Another great place to buy ferns and rare/unusual plants is in British Columbia Canada and they used to ship to me... Fraser’s Thimble Farms. http://thimblefarms.com/

I had several of the soft shield ferns. I thought ‘Plumosum Multilobum’ was the Mossy Soft Shield Fern... or at least it used to be. Polystichum setiferum ‘Barfords Dwarf’ Polystichum setiferum ‘Bevis’ – Soft Needle Fern Polystichum setiferum ‘Congestum Cristatum’ – Dwarf Crested Soft Shield...

Hi Tom-DE Good eye... it’s Polystichum polyblepharum – Tassel Fern. Ferns are one of my favorite plant groups. I had 125 different species/variety of fern in this garden. (The Garden Name was - Fernwood Gardens) The fern on the log is Polypodium vulgare - Common Polypodium.

This is the sidewalk garden. Lots of interesting plants in these two areas.

I was in Harwich... about half way out. Most winters the cold temps put me squarely in a zone 8 but about once or twice every third year it got colder.

Most Hosta can take more sun but you have to keep them watered. The Host in that photo were in full afternoon sun where/when they weren't shaded by shrubs.

Hi Linus It is a stoloniferous Hosta... H. 'Abiqua Ground Cover'. I took one clump and divided it up. Grew them in pots for the summer and then planted the 25 of them on that berm in the fall. Three years later the Hosta covered the area.

The next photos are of this area once it was completed. The plant material is filling in and maturing. You may notice that in some of these photos I have removed the Bamboo hedge and replaced it with Emerald Green Arborvitae. The last two photos are the most recent of them all... and voila...

Yes... the Southern Magnolia is hardy where I was. A couple years after that photo we had a very heavy wet snow that broke it off just above the ground and I never got around to planting another.

Hi Tom-DE I haven’t personally owned a Japanese Umbrella Pine but I do like them. I had a few Hinoki Cypress in this garden though... they’re a great conifer and ‘Nana’ is one of my favorites. I got a Hinoki that was part of a hedge row. It was a twin trunk about 11’ tall when I got it. Below is...

I’m not sure... there were 80 different ones I put in. I do love the dwarf Japanese white pines... Pinus parviflora. I had ‘Adcocks Dwarf’, ‘Arnold Arboretum’ and ‘Fuku Zu Mi’. I was also pretty fond of the Pinus densiflora ‘Oculus Draconis’ (Dragon’s Eye Pine) on the top of the berm in the last...

Here’s the area after I decked it... still had to trim up the edges of the decking.

My favorite thing about gardening is sharing ideas and info... “freely you have received freely give”.

The next stage was deciding what kind of material I wanted to use for the ‘patio’. I decided to use deck and dug out the area so it was level with the driveway. I built the joist system to fill in the area to be decked.

No... I got them from various nurseries in MA

There are running bamboos and clumping bamboos... the Fargesia we're talking about are clumping.

This is the upper area outside the gates. I wanted to creat a private sitting area surrounded by plantings. I built a fence from treated lumber and old spruce 1”x12” boards I scavenged from an old auto repair shop in the country. I constructed berms and began to plant. The two Cryptomeria...

The bamboo next to the gate is Fargesia robusta (Fountain Bamboo). It’s one of the larger growing ones. I also had F. nitida (Blue Fountain Bamboo) and F. rufa (Green Panda Bamboo). Fargesia rufa is much smaller by about a third or half the size (6-8’). If you have room to let them ‘weep’ I...

Here’s a couple more pictures of the side yard and then I’ll post on a different area... this photo is through the gates a little further looking toward the back part of the garden. You can see the built in hot tub built in on the right. This view is looking up towards the gates. The hot tub is...

It’s a species and it is susceptible to wooly adelgid.