3 new fiddle heads!

The little one on the right has been there for 3 days now. The other 2 popped up today!

spores and crushed brick

And now 8 weeks of patience...

fiddle heads on the french fern

It doesn't seem to mind the mediterranean sun and heat so far. To be named.

Old botanic garden - around Montjuic, Barcelona

fern - not yet identified

did a bit of reading on "growing ferns from spores" and immediately found a nice manual starting "it's remarkably easy..."
http://website.lineone.net/~margaret_cole/SFG7/growing%20ferns.htm
It seems easy enough but the fact that it takes YEARS is a bit discouraging..

got lucky in the flower shop in gracia

still happily green and growing 2 weeks later

how it all started...

... at least the barceloneta moss mission