Reginald Kaye was a 20th century, English nursery owner and an expert at growing everything from orchids to alpine plants. He had both a hosta and a pulmonaria named after him, but he wrote about his favorite plants in “Hardy Ferns,” a book that helped revive something of the popularity ferns enjoyed during the Victorian period. His writing is both pragmatic and lightened by dry humor. A favorite book of local fern expert Sue Olsen.
Published in Garden Notes: Northwest Horticultural Society, Spring 2020