Dryopteris remota 25/12 Restock the shrub fruits on the

the shrub fruits on the current year's growth

" Native to the eastern United States

in keeping a living fossil alive

a range that has produced reasonable cold hardiness for the genus

growing dense and rounded and asking little

Dryopteris remota 25/12 Restock the shrub fruits on theDryopteris remota, the remote wood fern or scaly buckler fern, is one of those quiet accidents of nature that turns out better than anything a breeder set out to make. The fern is a naturally occurring hybrid between the scaly male fern, Dryopteris affinis, of western Europe and the British Isles, and the broad buckler fern, Dryopteris expansa, of cooler northern woods. From the affinis parent the hybrid took shaggy stalks thickly clothed in golden