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Shaded by Douglas firs, rhododendron, and Japanese maples, Emily Joseph rounds the fern-filled bend of one of the world’s largest stumperies, a garden that uses wood to make homes for shade ...

If it were up to her, we’d have a full-on reprise of Pteridomania, the fern craze of the Victorian era. Ferns aren’t just terrestrial.

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Shade-loving gardeners like Joseph have been in on the secret since Victorian times. “In Britain, they called it the ‘fern craze,’” she says.

How the Victorian fern-hunting craze led to adventure, romance, and crime But Alice Warder Garrett was more interested in fine art: plants in paintings or glassworks rather than pots.