Ferncliffe, on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, is a paradise of ferns. It is a delightful reserve, mainly a riverine forest (there is a Lemonwood walk), streams, streptocarpus, clivia, birds and fungi, as well as butterflies (abundant Bush Beauties), and of course FERNS.
Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line. --Thoreau.
Neil and Tanza Crouch have put together a charming booklet: The Ferns of Ferncliffe a Ramblers guide in which they identify 67 species in the reserve. The ferns on this blog were mostly from here, but some from our garden or the KZN-NBG.
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