There's a new arrival in the parish garden that I am excited about! It's a tree fern that my husband Max donated to the church called a Cyathea medullaris, or I guess they've reclassified it as a Sphaeropteris medullaris. You can learn more about it here. I feel like as soon as I learn a plant's scientific name, they reclassify it. It's commonly called a black tree fern because unlike most tree ferns, as it matures it develops a black trunk and it has fronds with strikingly black stipes (the stipe is the central, main thick part of a fern fronds from which all the leaves emerge). Here's the medullaris that Max planted at the church:
And here's a photo from Wikipedia showing a very mature medullaris...
wikimedia user gerald.w, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
As you see, someday this tree fern could tower over the garden, as tall as the church or taller. Another exciting happening in the garden has been the show that the amaryllis has been putting on. If you missed the recent white amaryllis blooms in the front of the church, the same plant is going for round two. Below is a photo of the amaryllis in full bloom from a month ago, and the new flowers getting ready for a second show. You can click photos on this blog for a larger view.
There's also some exciting amaryllis action getting ready to happen on the East Merle side of the church near the side door to the Fireside Room...
Stay tuned!
Gah! Two plants that are houseplants up here in Portland. What I wouldn't give to grow that tree fern in the ground!
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