Hardy Ferns

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Hardy ferns are easy to grow and combine well with hostas, preferring the same conditions. They provide the fine texture and form that goes so well with hostas and adds contrast and interest that is especially important in large plantings.

All of our ferns are nursery propagated and shipped in containers.  We do not sell plants that have been collected in the wild. This not only protects wild populations, but potted, nursery propagated ferns are much easier to establish in the garden than plants dug in the wild and shipped bareroot.
 

615200  Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum'  -  Dwarf Lady Fern

Part Shade-Shade / 6-12” / Zone 4-8

This is a dwarf selection of our native Lady Fern.  While it stays much shorter than the species, the clump stays tight and fills in very thickly.  For its size it is a good, moderate spreader.

615200 Athyrium 'Minutissimum   Add to Order   $9.95 

610200  Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'  -  Japanese Painted Fern

Part Shade-Shade / 12-18” / Zone 4-9 

If I didn't enjoy hostas so much, the Japanese Painted Fern might be my favorite plant for shady areas.   It's a terrific companion for hostas, providing the color and texture contrast that garden designers love.  Low growing and spreading, it is the most colorful of the hardy ferns, with silver covering most of the frond, sometimes with burgundy markings in the center. It is beautiful when used in mass but the graceful arching habit also looks great as a single specimen.

610200  Japanese Pained Fern   Add to Order   $8.95
 

610200  Athyrium n. 'Regal Red'  -  Japanese Painted Fern 'Regal Red'

Part Shade-Shade / 12-18” / Zone 4-9

This is a new selection from Casa Flora. They say - “Handsome and ruffled, this high color selection is our most requested Painted Fern. The dark interior of the frond is contrasted by bright silver edges making each appear more than they are. The pinnules twist a little giving the frond a “fluffed-up” look.”

610200  Japanese Pained Fern 'Regal Red'  Sorry, sold out
 

610300  - Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum forma rubellum  'Lady in Red'

Part Shade-Shade / 24-30” / Zone4 

This the hottest and most sought after new fern. Selected from the Northern Lady Fern it combines that delicate airy look with brilliant burgundy red stipes (stems). This is so new we haven’t seen a mature specimen in person yet but if its half as showy as its publicity photos this will be a must have for the shady garden. 

610300 Athyrium 'Lady in Red'  Add to Order   $9.95

615600 Cystopteris bulbifera

Part Shade-Shade / 8-12” / Zone 3

This is a relatively fast growing and easy fern that is adaptable to many conditions. Fronds are bi-pinnate, relatively narrow and open in form. In addition to reproducing by spores this species also produces small bulblets on the underside of the fronds that fall off and become new plants. Known as Bulblet Bladder Fern and Berry Fern.

615600 Cystopteris bulbifera   Sorry, sold out
 

615700  Dryopteris x celsa

Part Shade-Shade / 3-4' / Zone 5-9

Dryopteris x celsa is a native, naturally occurring, and fertile hybrid between Dryopteris goldiana and Dryopteris ludoviciana. It’s a relatively large erect fern, as are its parents, but added to that is a “hybrid vigor”... for us this is one of the most robust of this group. Frond color is a good dark green. In the wild it sometimes grows in the rich humus of rotting logs, hence the common name Log Fern.

615700  Dryopteris x celsa   Add to Order   $8.95
 

615800 Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Part Shade-Shade / 18” / Zone 5 

This is a new colorful and more brilliant form of the Autumn Fern. The young fronds of this cultivar are lustrous and orange. Even the fronds at maturity, though green, hold their glossy sheen. The growth habit is identical to the Autumn but as a whole it is dramatically more showy. A wonderful evergreen addition to the fern garden.

615800 Dryopteris 'Brilliance'   Add to Order   $8.95
 

616100 Dryopteris tokyoensis 

Part Shade-Shade / 2-3’ / Zone5

This is one of our favorites of the Asian Wood Ferns. The relatively narrow fronds are stiffly upright, in a vase form from a central crown. It is sometimes described with light or yellow green color. While new fronds are light green, mature fronds of our clone have a rich, almost blue-green color.

616100 Dryopteris tokyoensis    Add to Order   $8.95