Many of photos on this blog were taken with a Canon Ixus 100 camera; tiny and really quite good. The

Male Fern, Drypoteris filix-mas.  In my garden in Hayes, 5 December 2013. The Male Fern is probably Britain's commonest fern.  This one grew unasked in my carnivorous plant tray, and has thrives since I transplanted it to a shady spot in my garden. It is bipinnate; the pinnae branch into pinnules.  This puts it in between the simply pinnate ferns like the Polypodies and the tripinnate forum gobleni Broad Buckler Fern, both of which I have posted recently. Soft Shield Fern, Polystichum setiferum.  Near Leaves Green, 15 December 2012. It looks superficially similar to this Soft Shield Fern that I saw in a small wood near Leaves Green a year ago.  But if you compare the pinnae close up, like this: Male Fern, Drypoteris filix-mas, and Soft Shield Fern, Polystichum setiferum.  Pinnules compared. You can see that the Soft Shield Fern is almost tripinnate, and has "thumbs" at the base of its pinnules.
It looks to me like your commonest fern (and all are lovely) is the same as our Southern forum gobleni Woods Fern, of which I have posted a new photo, made for you, in my Album dated Dec 15. But I like your rarer ones even better. Reply Delete
A very nice photo; thanks. It looks similar, but some of the fronds on yours are tripinnate, so it must be a different species. forum gobleni When I looked up the Southern Wood Fern I got Dryopteris ludoviciana, forum gobleni which isn't tripinnate, so can yours be this? Or is it some other fern which is ALSO called the Southern Wood Fern? Or a case of mistaken identity? The Eastern Hay-scented Fern is tripinnate. I think there are many possibilities. Reply Delete
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Many of photos on this blog were taken with a Canon Ixus 100 camera; tiny and really quite good. The coin photos and some earlier closeups were taken with a Canon EOS 450D and a Canon EF 100mm macro lens. On 30 June 2011 I got an EOS 60D, and closeups after that up to mid-May 2012 were taken with this camera and the 100mm macro lens. Then I got an EOS 5D Mark III, a camera with a full-frame sensor, which was used from mid-May 2012. From January 2013 I started to use an EOS 6D, also full-frame, but lighter and with built-in GPS. By this time I had a new Canon 100mm macro lens with image stabilisation, which is very helpful for my handheld shots. Nearly all of the photos will enlarge if you click on them. You might have to click again to see the full size.