A week or so...

 The Laburnum walk at Bodnant gardens in North Wales was loooking spectacular last week when we visited on our way across Wales to Crug Farm Nursery.

I noticed this unusual adiantum fern growing at the garden at Crug plants with its red flushed foliage when young. The owner Sue couldn't identify it but a bit has gone off to Holland to be worked on, I have since found it I think in a fern book, but the name escapes me at the moment.

In Betwys-y-coed this beautiful hankerchief tree Davidia Involucrata was growing over a stone wall on the side of the road just a few hundred yards from this unusual fern below. I think there must have been an impressive victorian garden on there as there were several interesting plants around including a dryopteris wallichiana with its fantastic dark spine visible amongst a clump of lady ferns. The fern below I have never seen before and had a fantastic fleshy colour to the young fronds.