Comptonia peregrina-Sweet fern

Description

It’s not a fern and it’s not sweet, but it’s a really wonderful pioneering plant capable of growing in poor, sandy soils. Attractive leaves have a spicy minty scent when crushed. A friend of ours, Elder Ron, says that a tincture of the leaves, attached to your clothing, will keep mosquitoes away. Nitrogen fixing bacteria reside in root nodules; these help parent plants and also adds nitrogen to the soil for future plant establishment. Spreading colonies stabilize soils. Another good choice for hell strips. Grows to about knee or waist height.

-1 gallon size plants now available, 12″ high, $18 each