“The lovely secluded spots which they seek out—shy wood-sprites that they are. “ Shirley Hibberd, 1825-1890, horticultural journalist
Have you ever noticed a fiddlehead’s fuzzy texture? How can an entire fern frond be contained in that tiny compact fiddlehead? There is magic in ferns as they unfurl themselves… becoming graceful works of art in the process. No wonder the Victorians collected them, sometimes to the point of extinction, growing them in glass containers called Wardian cases, pressing them to create pictures and capturing them in watercolour as botanical paintings. To this day images of ferns adorn walls everywhere.
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