How To Use Tongue fern In A Sentence

  • A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene. Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes
  • An enthusiastic botanical collector told me that for years he searched far and near for the adder's-tongue fern, till one day he stumbled upon it in a place over which he had long been in the habit of passing. Birds in the Bush
  • An enthusiastic botanical collector told me that for years he searched far and near for the adder's-tongue fern, till one day he stumbled upon it in a place over which he had long been in the habit of passing. Birds in the Bush
  • Asplenium scolopendrium: hart's tongue fern with strap-shaped fronds. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the exposed limestone, crinkly yellow rock-rose and dark red helleborine; also hart's-tongue fern, rigid buckler-fern, hard shield-fern. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upwards through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
  • There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
  • But the true country elder-flower ointment contains a little piece of adder's-tongue fern, which is believed to confer magical virtue. The Life of the Fields
  • But the true country elder-flower ointment contains a little piece of adder's-tongue fern, which is believed to confer magical virtue. The Life of the Fields
  • Enclosing the garden will be a traditional dry stone wall planted with native Irish plants - yarrow, thrift, heart's tongue fern and maiden hair spleenwort.
  • Enclosing the garden will be a traditional dry stone wall planted with native Irish plants - yarrow, thrift, heart's tongue fern and maiden hair spleenwort.
  • There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
  • Think about adding hollies, laurels, camellias, castor-oil plant, sweet box, phormium, acanthus and hart's tongue fern. Times, Sunday Times

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