Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs Give a sheltered spot out

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

buttery yellow before dropping

often setting berries on a single plant

drought and salt are shrugged off

and by late summer some flowers give way to aromatic

Osmunda regalis Groundcover Shrubs Give a sheltered spot outOsmunda 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