Ferns and Christmas Lights... Akron, OH

I have primarily dedicated this site to my interest in growing ferns outdoors in Akron, Ohio (zone 5 USDA). I have collected and grow over 100 different types of hardy ferns. I provide feedback on some of my successes and some of my failures. I have pictures and descriptions of nearly every fern I have, categorized by various characteristics. I also have a fern-naming game for some common and/or distinctive ferns. While most of the information on my ferns comes from my experience, some info, such as where the ferns are native to comes from the various fern books I have listed. I also list some sources for Hardy Ferns. If you're interested in Christmas lights you'll also want to check out my family's decorations. The Map link has driving directions if you're close. The lights are on 5:30-11:30 nightly all of December. Roller Coaster running hours are 6:30-9:30 nightly.

 

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
He who hesitates is probably right.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
If 'ya can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em.
Remember - Do your part. RECYCLE An Environmentalist.
From the School of Unfinished Research: 9 out of 10
If you can't be offensive, why bother?
There is no gravity. The Earth sucks.
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
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When given the choice of two evils, I pick the one I've never tried before.
Is reading in the bathroom considered multitasking?
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If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I used to have a handle on life, then it broke.
A good way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
Every morning is the dawn of a new error.
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Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Familiarity breeds children.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
History does not repeat itself; historians merely repeat each other.
If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem!
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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
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If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
We secretly replaced your brain with Folgers crystals.
Trespassers will be shot and survivors will be shot again.
Time is the best teacher... Unfortunately it kills all its students.
How do \"Keep off the grass\" signs get where they are?
If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Prosecutors will be violated
What do you call someone who only hates bigots?
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Why buy color safe bleach? Isn't a stain a color?
186,000 miles per second -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law!
640KB should be enough for everybody. - Bill Gates, 1982
Are you a computer?
A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Eagles may soar, but weasles aren't sucked into jet engines
Have you ever wanted to download pizza?
He who slings mud loses ground.
If a string has one end, it has another.
If inlaws were outlawed, only outlaws would have inlaws.
It is impossible to make something foolproof; fools are too ingenious.
To have died once is enough.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
To teach is to learn.
Two rights don't make a wrong; they make an airplane
Variables won't, constants aren't.
You may now long on to life. Password? __________
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
How do I set my laser printer on stun?
How is it possible to have a civil war?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2
If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons?
If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I'd be gone. I said, \"The whole time.\"
So what's the speed of dark?
How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees?
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I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.
Isn't Disney World a people trap run by a mouse?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word lisp to have an \"s\" in it?
Light travels faster than sound. Is that why some people appear intelligent until you hear them speak?
How come \"abbreviated\" is such a long word?
Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?
If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?
Why are there 5 syllables in the word monosyllabic?
Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not adore?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as 4's?
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
If I throw a stick, will you leave?
Therapy is expensive, poppin' bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.
And your crybaby whiny opinion would be...?
If only you'd use your powers for good instead of evil...
Allow me to introduce my selves
Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.
Do they ever shut up on your planet?
A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes?
Don't worry. I forgot your name, too!
Adults are just kids who owe money.
Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?
Too may freaks, not enough circuses.
Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.
Is it time for your medication or mine?
I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that won't work.
There is always one more bug
How do you write a zero in Roman numerals?
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?
How do you get off a nonstop flight?
If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
Why do they call it chili if it's hot?
Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.
Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.