The Plant Lovers Guide to Ferns

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The Plant Lovers Guide to Ferns Authors: , Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Timber Press
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Pages: 252 Illustrations and other contents: 300 color photos Language: English ISBN: 9781604694741 Categories: , , , ,

The authors recommend a selection of classic and new fern cultivars. They focus on designing with ferns in a range of garden settings and combining them with companion plants. This book includes an extensive plant list with 100 of the top-performing varieties, inspiring photography and a useful list of the best places to see and buy ferns.

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Author Biography

Richie Steffen is curator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, Washington where he oversees development, manages the special collections, and oversees greatplantpicks.org. He travels extensively to collect plants and visit gardens, and regularly lectures and writes. Steffen also serves as president of the Northwest Horticultural Society and the Hardy Fern Foundation.Sue Olsen developed a love of ferns in the late 1960s and has been studying, propagating, and writing about them ever since. Her fern nursery, Foliage Gardens, has introduced numerous ferns to North American horticulture and is the oldest mail-order nursery in the United States for spore-grown temperate ferns. Sue was a founding member and first president of the Hardy Fern Foundation, and has served since then as editor of Hardy Fern? Quarterly. Her interest and joy in photography date back to childhood and the gift of a simple box camera. She has shared her photos and plant knowledge in lectures in England and throughout North America. Sue is a graduate of Cornell University.