Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' Vilmorin The species honors Carl Ludwig

The species honors Carl Ludwig Sprenger

Where most trifoliate hybrids carry the bitter trifoliate aftertaste as a family curse

and the plant has also long been called Easter lily for the season of bloom

The seeds are aromatic and tingling

the Japanese spiraea

Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' Vilmorin The species honors Carl LudwigThere is a moment in early spring when a new frond of Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' unfurls, and the sight is one of the more quietly spectacular things a shade garden produces. The emerging fronds are a vivid copper orange, almost metallic in certain light, deepening through pink and bronze before settling into the glossy dark green of maturity. 'Brilliance' is a selected form of the autumn fern chosen specifically for the intensity of that