Ugly Ducklings

The emerging stems and fiddleheads of many ferns are pretty strange looking.  Some are quite ugly.  Luckily these ugly ducklings quickly transform themselves into a beautiful swans with leaves that add lush and dramatic accents to my Hamptons garden in the summer.

Cinnamon fern

Eastern wood fern

Royal Fern

Maidenhair fern

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