Garden Duet VI, and a fern find!

I'm a frequent shopper at ReClaim It (a local shop "devoted to reducing waste & promoting creative reuse in our community"), so when I saw a poster for their late June Cracked Pots event in two Portland Gardens, I bought a ticket. The Cracked Pots event at Edgefield (here's a post) was a fun "must-do" every summer up until COVID put an end to it, this seemed like a  small scale revival.
While I love to upcycle and plant (mostly) metal pieces in my garden most of the items sold as "garden art" send me running in the opposite direction, fast. So I wasn't hoping to find any thing to buy, so much as wanting to support the organization and hoping to see a couple of interesting gardens. As luck would have it, I hit the jackpot.The first garden I stopped at belonged to Fred Nilsen and Theresa Garcia.
There were so many people moving around the garden, and so much stuff there for the sale, it was a little hard to focus on what the garden would be without the various distractions.
Still, I was able to tell that a real plantsperson was at work here.
Afterall, there was a nice Pyrrosia sheareri...
The deck cut-outs allowing for sunken pots were a genius touch.

When I saw these trough planters...
Specifically this one...look at that foliage! 
I knew I needed to talk to the gardener, thankfully a Cracked Pots volunteer led me to Fred and he was up for a chat.
The plant, labeled as Hepatica (Poulett Hybrid) came from Heronswood in 2006. As luck would have it there were a couple of potted up seedlings sitting near by, I asked if I could buy one and Fred didn't hesitate for even a minute before handing me one and saying "I don't sell plants".
Moving on I was quite smitten with this sizable in-ground patch of Pyrrosia sheareri.
Moving around to the front.
That's a nice clump of Pyrrosia hastata on the left.
I love that they're located on the path side of the rocks.
Haberlea rhodopensis
Rhododendron chamaethomsonii, which would appear to be an excellent substitute for my much lusted after (and twice killed) R. forrestii.
On the sunny side, a dasylirion (I think wheeleri?).
And agaves! (yes the dog was part of the garden art sale)
Do you see the ferns? 
I did and I was very curious as to what they might be. They were obviously sun lovers, but not one I recognized. I went back to find Fred and asked, he didn't recall the name but promised to look it up and email me. We got to chatting a little more and I learned Fred used to manage Portland's Forest Park, Hoyt Arboretum, and other areas for the City of Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation. He was also part of the early days of our local chapter of NARGS (North American Rock Garden Society) and we knew a couple of people in common, like Sean Hogan and Panayoti Kelaidis.
So I did get an email from Fred just a day or two later, with info: "The fern was acquired from the old Bayless (and maybe a reference to her is a red flowering currant named 'Pokies Pink'). I got the fern labeled Ceterach officinarum, but now named Asplenium ceterach." I did find an online reference to Portland plantswoman Pokey Bayliss (and the currant) but that's not a name I've heard before. The best part of the email though was that Fred said he'd dig up a fern for me! (more on that below)
Leaving Fred Nilsen and Theresa Garcia's garden headed for the second location I spied an interesting bamboo fence and an explosion of bamboo just up the street, I had to look closer.
Tetrapanax too...
My takeaway from the second garden I saw that day (belonging to Cindy McEnroe & Joe Coletto) was that deer fern, Struthiopteris spicant, syn. Blechnum spicant, can get WAY bigger than I ever imagined.
Note the legs standing behind the plants for scale! 
So now we've fast forwarded to my garden and where I planted the hepatica that Fred shared with me.
And here are the two Asplenium ceterach he brought me when he came over for a garden visit. How generous, thank you Fred!
Naturally I started researching this new-to-me fern, and that's when I discovered our paths have crossed before. Here's a screen shot I took during a webinar last March from the Hardy Fern Foundation, I think maybe it was Ferns of the Azores with Fred Ramsey.
On the Wikipedia page for the fern I learned it's common name is rustyback fern, due to the "dense layer of pale reddish-brown scales" on the underside of the fronds. That same page had an image of this Russian stamp with the Asplenium ceterach on it...
Guess what I have! Yep, that same stamp, and four others (a stocking stuffer gift from Andrew one Christmas).