Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)

What a change in the weather, it was raining when I got up and the temperature had dropped to about half what it was yesterday!  At first I was planning an indoor shot, which would have been a change from flowers and birds.

As the day improved I wandered round the garden and my eye fell on the Hart's-tongue fern growing in the "woodland garden".  A native plant common in woodlands and shady damp places.  This one however is from a garden centre, keep in mind digging up a wild one is illegal.

Being hardy and evergreen it provides an useful addition to the woodland area.  The name is supposedly because the long straplike fronds are said to look like a deer's (Hart being the old name for deer) tongue.  Never having had a close look at a deer's tongue I will refain from comment.