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Dryopteris affinis AGM
  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

The native golden scale fern, tough and quite large growing. To 1m tall if not too dry. It will take very cold, dry situations and rather thrive on neglect. Semi-evergreen.
Price: £4.95

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Dryopteris affinis 'Crispa Gracilis' AGM

Dryopteris affinis 'Crispa Gracilis' AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A short form of the native golden-scale fern, but as its name suggests, has crisped and crested fronds. It grows very easily, neatly and reaches approximately 30cm tall. 1 litre deep pots. Semi-evergreen.
Price: £3.50

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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata' AGM

Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata' AGM

  • Pot size: 9cm
  • Plant size: 15cm (6in)
  • Growing condition: Partial - full shade

Narrow fronded form with crests on the side and terminal pinnae. A very elegant fern. Semi-evergreen to 1m tall.
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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata' The King Fern AGM
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. To 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Dryopteris affinis 'Stableri'

Dryopteris affinis 'Stableri'
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Narrow fronds on this strong growing affinis form.
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Dryopteris x australis

Dryopteris x australis

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Sterile, rare and really quite striking. A hybrid that forms a upright shiny shuttlecock of fronds.

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Dryopteris carthusiana

Dryopteris carthusiana

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A slightly coarse good doer for general planting in the garden or landscape, with mid green toothed fronds.
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Dryopteris championii

Dryopteris championii

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Another Japanese species with pale green new fronds ageing to dark green. Shiny and very weather resistant, slowly creeping.
Price: £5.00

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Dryopteris crassirhizoma

Dryopteris crassirhizoma

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A lovely fern with dark scaled stipes not unlike D. wallichiana but with squarer pinnules and fresh green look, deciduous.
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Dryopteris cycadina AGM

Dryopteris cycadina AGM

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Lovely fern with black hairs on the back of the stipe and bold dark green foliage. New fronds uncurl like an elephant’s trunk. Semi-evergreen.
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Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside' AGM

Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside' AGM

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

D. dilatata is the common woodland fern around here but this is a much paler golden green, crisped and congested. A very attractive fern. Semi-evergreen.
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Dryopteris erythrosora AGM

Dryopteris erythrosora AGM

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial shade

Quite one of the best garden ferns with bronze new fronds all Summer. Will tolerate a fair amount of alkalinity in the soil but prefers neutral to acid soils. Evergreen.
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Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Partial shade

A North American cultivar in which the new fronds are said to be brighter and deeper in colour.
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Dryopteris erythrosora var prolifica AGM

Dryopteris erythrosora var prolifica AGM

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Partial shade

Handsome dwarf form which is a bit more crisped than the species and forms bulbils in the vein axils. Bronze new growth all Summer. Very good in a shady rock garden. Evergreen.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Barnesii'

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Barnesii'
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Interesting form with narrow fronds and the pinnae having a serrated edge and slightly crisped look. A fine garden fern. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas' Crispa Cristata'

Dryopteris filix-mas' Crispa Cristata'
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Dwarf form with overlapping crisped pinnae with small terminal and side crests. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Cristata' AGM

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Cristata' AGM

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A form with crested side and terminal pinnae. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Depauperata'

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Depauperata'
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Pinnae reduced to almost just the mid-ribs. Once sori develop on established plants it has a wonderful lacy look. Very dark green colour. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Euxinensis'

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Euxinensis'

  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Rare form with flat, neat, undivided light green side pinnae and a long terminal crest. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Linearis Polydactyla' AGM

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Linearis Polydactyla' AGM
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Pinnae reduced to ribs with long terminal crests on this graceful open fern. Most offered in the trade are not true but are inferior forms. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Parsley'

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Parsley'

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 30cm (12in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A North American cultivar with very crested congested fronds which look like.....
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Dryopteris goldieana

Dryopteris goldieana

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

The giant wood fern of North America which enjoys damp woodland conditions. Highly decorative when the new fronds appear in Spring. Deciduous.
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Dryopteris labordei

Dryopteris labordei
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Larger and a bit more open than Dryopteris erythrosora. The golden mist fern looks to be a lovely new introduction from the Far East with shiny evergreen fronds which come out a rich bright bronze colour all through the growing season. A typical Japanese type fern to grow.
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Dryopteris lepidopoda
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 60cm (24in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A lovely fern from the Himalayas, superficially similar to Dry. wallichiana, upright in habit but with pink/red new flush to the glossy foliage. Easy to grow in a similar spot to D. wallichiana or erythrosora.
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Dryopteris ludoviciana

Dryopteris ludoviciana
  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A tall growing glossy fern from the South Eastern USA. Evergreen in warmer areas but will become deciduous with cold spells, but it is fully hardy to -20 or more. Comes from swamps and damp woods and will need some moisture in cultivation.
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Dryopteris x remota

Dryopteris x remota
  • Pot size: 1 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A fertile hybrid between Dry. affinis and expansa, a very tough and easily grown, hardy fern with wide with yellow green slightly recurving pinnules on twice cut fronds, narrowly lance shaped. Semi-evergreen.
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Dryopteris sieboldii

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 45cm (18in)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

This unusual Japanese fern has a long uncut terminal pinnae some 20-30cm in length and two or three pairs of uncut side pinnae. It is quite glaucous-green in colour and prefers a humus rich soil and protection from strong winds. Evergreen.
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Dryopteris tokyoensis

Dryopteris tokyoensis

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

Bold, pale, greeny-yellow pinnate fronds held upright. One of the most elegant ferns with a narrow upright shuttlecock shape.
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Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

  • Pot size: 2 Litre
  • Plant size: 75cm plus (32in plus)
  • Growing condition: Full shade

A most magnificent fern from the Himalayas and Japan. The young unfolding fronds are a golden green in the Spring contrasting well with the hairy black midrib and stems. Evergreen.
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