fernery

The looping trail through the Arboretum ends with a stroll through beds of shade-loving plants flourishing beneath mature evergreens in the peaceful Woodland Garden and Fernery, where a small wooden bridge traverses a well-crafted dry creek bed.

"These works were meant to make you feel you had walked into a fernery, though in between the exotic plants there are things like foxgloves."

Should the architect be so fortunate as to obtain a site for his house where the ground rises steep and abrupt on one side of the house, he will get here a series of terraces, rock-gardens, a fernery, a rose-garden, &c.

Beyond it, orchid house, fernery, and vinery flashed amidst the trees; while the great cool lawn, shaven to the likeness of emerald velvet, glowing borders, and even the immaculate gravel that crunched beneath the major's feet conveyed the same suggestion to him.

Then I built a stove-house and conservatory, where my exotic fernery was my great delight, and I spent much of my time there.