I love to watch how plants return to their glory when they are freed from invasive blackberry vines. Our site is has so many sword ferns; very few of them were planted by us. Most were barely visible when we first removed the blackberry vines.
This fern was freed on March 11 of last year. The photos below show what has happened since that time.
March 11, 2019 March 29, 2019 April 14, 2019 January 17, 2020