Ferns and more ferns

Saturday again already! How quickly the weeks come round. A calm day, with reasonable sunshine and no wind! 

Usual Saturday morning visit to the pier for fresh fish, a visit to the library for fresh books and another to M&S for a fresh newspaper. Mostly 'office' work for the rest of the morning.

After lunch I spent most of the afternoon outside, weeding pots, rewriting labels and generally pottering. I have so many different ferns and unfortunately over the years some labels have either broken off or the writing faded, so some ferns are temporarily nameless. I keep a record of every plant that comes on to this property so occasionally I can, by dint of some detective work, find out what they are. My Blip today is of a pair of what since 1858 have been known as Blechnum cycadifolium, but inevitably some bored taxonomist decided recently to change it - it's now Lomariocycas cycadifolia. My plants were given to me as very young sporelings by my late friend Jamie Taggart. 

It is apparently a tree fern, though I've never seen one with a trunk and will not see this happen to my plants in my lifetime! It's endemic to the Juan Fernandez archipelago off the coast of Chile.