Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs and by late summer some

and by late summer some flowers give way to aromatic

Give a sheltered spot out of hard freezes at the cold edge of the range

and a clean yellow turn in fall before the leaves drop

a lineage once spread worldwide and now scattered mostly across the Southern Hemisphere

Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs and by late summer someOsmunda 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