Silene ovata Taxus This seed-grown collection comes from

This seed-grown collection comes from the 5

compared to most of our other fern selections

Flowering starts for us in late June and continues into September

The unusual flowers resemble a pink hood housing a winding set of stairs leading to a tall white snow cone

Copper fern has proven quite easy to grow in our sunny rock garden alongside agaves and cacti

Silene ovata Taxus This seed-grown collection comes fromSilene ovata, also known as Blue Ridge catchfly, is one of the rarer of the US native catchflies, with a native range from southern Illinois south to Georgia. This is not a common species anywhere and we need your help to share this worldwide to ensure its survival. In the wild, Silene ovata is found in forests on rocky wooded slopes, but we've grown it since 2006 in half day sun, and found it amazingly easy, even in unattended parts of the garden