Ferns

They say that ferns can have flowers.

The clouds, heavy with hail and snow-flakes, hung low in the sky, and the raven stood on the ferns crying, "Croak, croak." It made one shiver with cold to look at him.

Ferns won't grow in such a dry place.

Can I fix the table with ferns and wild roses?

One clear star hung over the orchard and the fireflies were flitting over in Lover's Lane, in and out among the ferns and rustling boughs.

The Friday afternoons, they don't have recitations. Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a 'field' day and they study ferns and flowers and birds.

A vase of frost-bleached ferns and ruby-red maple leaves adorned the table.

The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart’s-tongue ferns.

The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light.

At many sites, there are rotten tree trunks lying on the ground on which grow moss and ferns.