Sentences with phrase «bracken fern»

Meade's friend and neighbor Hilma snipped Roger out of the peanut field with a pair of tiny scissors and transposed him onto two color photographs, so that he seemed to hover, artistically stark in Agrisearch black and white, between two lush springtimes — on the left, the bracken fern and longleaf pine woods on the hillside where his family house had once stood, and on the right, the «Old Blush» in full bloom in his backyard rose garden.

I dug the big garden by hand, a foot deep all around to eradicate tenacious bracken ferns and other weeds, which was tedious but very thorough.