Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants The flowers

The flowers

It is a display that lasts several weeks as it turns from green to yellow then amber

Asarum splendens is a vigorous and superbly easy-to-grow Chinese wild ginger that makes a great evergreen groundcover for the woodland garden

but is strangely absent from most American gardens

since it takes the salt as well as any margarita

Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants The flowersI am not a fern I am a shrub and a fragrant one at that! The common name, sweet fern, sums up its namesake well. Comptonia hails from Canada south to northern Georgia, where it is usually found on sandy dry soils in full sun as well as under an open canopy of sparse pine trees. The thick, fern like, green leaves are deliciously fragrant, as is common in its family, Myricaceae think wax myrtles. Comptonia peregrina spreads by short stolons, so don't