Ferns

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Athyrium niponicum 'SILVER FALLS'
(Japanese painted fern)

Silver Falls is a Japanese painted fern variety named after a waterfall in Oregon, USA. It produces nearly silver foliage with less conspicuous magenta purple midribs and stems whose colour diminishes as the leaves mature. ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.3 - 0.5m	semi-shade to shade	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cyrtomium falcatum
(Japanese holly fern)

Cyrtomium falcatum (Phanerophlebia falcata)

Japanese holly fern is more often used as a beautiful house plant, however, it is quite hardy to be planted outside in the garden (USDA zone 6 – borderline). It makes upto 60 cm long erect fronds with dark green, very glossy, slightly toothed and sharply pointed (but harmless) pinnae hence its ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.5m	semi-shade to shade	6b (down to -21°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cyrtomium fortunei var. clivicola
(netvein holly fern)

Cyrtomium fortunei (Phanerophlebia fortunei)

This fern is close relative to cyrtomium falcatum (Japanese holly fern). It is hardier and its leaves are not glossy. They are light to dull green, erect, pinnate with sickle-shaped leaflets. It likes acidic, humus-rich soil that is light and always moist. It does best planted in shade or semi-shad ...


	0.3 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.6m	semi-shade / partial sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Dryopteris affinis 'CRISTATA THE KING'
(golden male fern)

The real king of all British ferns, and not only in the U.K, is this male fern called ´Cristata the King´. Throughout the mild and colder zones of Europe, this fern is a must have. Quite a robust one for a perennial, it creates long, arching fronds with striking crested tips. Each frond can grow up ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.5 - 0.6m	semi-shade to shade	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Dryopteris cycadina
(shaggy shield fern)

Shaggy shield fern is a lovely fern with geometrically regular architecture. Individual leaflets are deep green and glossy, composed around a nearly black stem. The fronds are mostly upright making an attractive specimen plant beneath tree canopies. It is hardy to about -30°C. Cut off all lea ...


	0.3 - 0.5m		semi-shade to shade	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Dryopteris erythrosora
(Japanese Rosy Buckler fern)

Japanese Rosy Buckler fern is especially pretty for its bronze-pink new leaves. The fronds are of a classic fern appearance, about 40 cm tall and new growths are always erect. It forms a dense clump. It is evergreen and looks beautiful without any sign of damage do ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.4m	semi-shade to shade	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Dryopteris filix-mas
(male fern)

The male fern is our native species, found throughout Europe and into the subarctic parts of the Northern Hemisphere. In smaller quantities it is also present in North America and Northern Asia. Available information about the taxon is somewhat diverse which makes ...


	0.8 - 1.3m	0.8 - 1m	full sun to shade	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Dryopteris lepidopoda
(sunset fern)

Sunset fern is a beautiful piece with amazing colour play of its new leaves. They emerge bright golden yellow with rich salmon-pink tones. The fronds are 40-60 cm long, semi-erect, and glossy. They turn rich green when mature. They remain evergreen and beautiful wi ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.4 - 0.5m	semi-shade to shade	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Matteuccia struthiopteris
(shuttlecock fern)

Shuttlecock fern (ostrich fern) is one of the most common ferns of European origin. It grows in our woodlands, in shaded areas and on wet meadows. It has erect, light green fronds that under ideal conditions can grow 1.5m tall, but are usually shorter in cultiva ...


	0.6 - 1m	0.3 - 0.4m	full sun to shade	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Polystichum makinoi
(Makino's holly fern)

Makino's holly fern is an evergreen fern whose native habitat is much of Asia, from India and Myanmar (Burma), Bhutan, China, Nepal, Tibet, North and South Korea to Japan. It is a very beautiful fern which makes up to 60 cm long fronds of bipinnate leaves. They are ...


	0.4 - 0.5m	0.5 - 0.6m	semi-shade to shade	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Polystichum polyblepharum
(Japanese tassel fern)

Japanese tassel fern is a woodland species of evergreen fern with dark green, leathery, and very glossy leaflets with a profusion of bristles along margins. Stems and midribs are an attractive shade of golden brown. The fronds are 40-60 cm long and commonly upright ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.5 - 0.8m	semi-shade to shade	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Polystichum rigens
(rigid shield fern)

Rigid shield fern is a compact evergreen fern from Japan. Its bipinnate fronds, especially on older plants, are so dissected that they look like 3-pinnate. They are 30-40 cm long and form a dense, slightly upright but mounding habit. Individual leaflets are leather ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.4 - 0.6m	semi-shade to shade	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Polystichum tsussimense
(Korean rock fern)

Korean rock fern is an East Asia species with glossy, evergreen foliage. It forms small, compact shuttlecocks of 20-40 cm long, pinnate fronds which might have been bi-pinnate if only the pinnae had not been joined at the base into one, deeply lobed, lanceolate, ab ...