On 02/10/2011 14:05, Colin Jackson wrote:
As a newby, what is the difference between brackens& ferns?

As a matter of interest, a neighbour said what I had in the garden was
bracken - an invasive weed.
Now the boss is looking , in a nursery, for pots of something very similar,
marked up as ferns!

Colin


I have always understood that fern are various plants that are common
wild in the UK, though there are of course "cultivated ones. I have
always considered bracken to be the dead dry fern, starting to develop
from the dying fern fronds around now.

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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire