The brown fern used between the thalictrum leaves came from the bottom of my previous garden, but any brown fern would be suitable.

On the other hand, the spiky nature of the brown ferns was echoed by the slightly spear-shaped thalictrum leaves.

Sure enough, a broad track of crushed brown fern led up the side of the hill and disappeared into a thick clump of heather.

A detail from a new Chinese wool needlepoint carpet features bouquets of green and brown ferns on a cream background.

Clearing a firespace around it, she added fragrant dead pine twigs, old brown ferns, and some stout billets of beech.

Under a snarl of brown ferns and ivy stems a little standing-stone could be seen, like a child's coffin half embedded in the earth.

In place of the nasty brown withered fern was a hanging plant of mammoth proportions, which must have weighed twenty pounds.

He dismounted to the side of the brown, dead ferns spreading like a garden in front of the house.

The wallpaper in the hall was faded brown fern leaves against a dirty beige background.

He was away some time, and Frodo after a few mouthfuls of lembas settled deep into the brown fern and went to sleep.