Pyrrosia lingua White/Cream Foliage Plants followed by blackberry-like ornamental seed

followed by blackberry-like ornamental seed pods

Giant Black-eyed Susan can tolerate a wide range of garden conditions from very dry slopes to standing water

topped in summer with branched terminal heads of mauvy-pink flowers

white flowers

drought-tolerant

Pyrrosia lingua White/Cream Foliage Plants followed by blackberry-like ornamental seedWith leaves that look and feel more like a cow's tongue, it's hard to imagine that these are really ferns. Many books claim that Pyrrosia lingua isn't winter hardy here, but we grow only uneducated ferns that can't read gardening books. The hard rhizome grows along the ground and the leaves arise singly from it. The tongue shaped leaves have a unique, cardboard like texture with a felty backside and eventually make a nice evergreen mass. Pyrrosia