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A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene.

Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes Lia Leendertz 2010

Others seem more far-fetched: hart's tongue apparently promotes chastity; wild clary prevents envy.

Welsh villagers market Myddfai as mecca for herbal remedies 2010

An underplanting of snowdrops in clusters with hart's tongue ferns (Asplenium scolopendrium) tucked in at the back adds another season.

Gardens: Planting in drifts Fergus Garrett 2010

If such mingling of "joy" and "sadness" at the hart's death makes mourning incomplete or improper, would matters then require, as in Coleridge's sea-tale, that further narratives or revisitations be proffered?

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

In lieu of its proper mourning, the hart's death is lamented, we learn, not just by the poem's narrator and tale-telling shepherd but also by nature itself.

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

Cadfael's nose might be blunt, battered and brown to view, but it was sharp and accurate in performance as a hart's.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

And then Harding bore the crown to her and knelt, and stood up again and crowned her before them all; and laying his hand upon the white hart's neck, moved away with it and its beautiful rider through the gateway.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And Rosalind, stooping of her own accord from the white hart's back, kissed him.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

But when in spring they drove you from the castle I did not know where to find you; and I hunted for your lair as I hunted for the hart's, and never knew they were the same.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And then Harding bore the crown to her and knelt, and stood up again and crowned her before them all; and laying his hand upon the white hart's neck, moved away with it and its beautiful rider through the gateway.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921