Longwood Gardens – Fiddleheads

I always look for fiddleheads on the tree ferns in the Longwood Gardens conservatory. The visit a few weeks ago was no exception. Somehow the tight coils of the fiddleheads are more awe inspiring than the fully developed fronds! Some are fuzzier than others! They often start out as a wad of coils and then unfurl enough to be coils within coils…then single coils along the main rib. If I ever have access to a fern with fiddleheads for a longer time, I would like to capture a time series of images - the unfurling of a fiddlehead.