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As she spoke, the flower became more and more magical, until I didn’t care about lavender or lady ferns.

Sword ferns, five-fingered ferns, lady ferns, chain ferns, deer ferns — they all mingle here, along with northern red-legged frogs, Pacific giant salamanders and sometimes Roosevelt elk.

Ghost is a selection from the suburban Richmond garden of the late Nancy Sweet and is probably a natural hybrid of the Japanese painted fern and the European lady fern.

We walked carefully down the channel, trying not to step on the lady ferns and tiarellas flourishing in the damp soil, the dark green leaves of elderberry and viburnums brushing our faces.

She knew where lady fern grew and phantom orchids and warted giant puffballs.