Evergreen Ferns.

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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 45cm (18in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.

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Blechnum spicant AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 30cm (12in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Native ladder fern, with the fronds resembling the steps of a ladder, needs neutral to acid soil. Very attractive in growth with both upright and arching fronds. Evergreen and very popular with flower arrangers.

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Cyrtomium fortunei AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

The hardiest species with pointed glossy pinnae on fronds. Named after Robert Fortune the plant hunter.

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Dryopteris affinis 'Polydactyla Dadds'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 75cm plus (32in plus)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

H80cm x W 60cm
A fine form with the pinnae fingered and spread. Quite robust, tends to be a bit more like a shuttlecock than Cristata.

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Dryopteris cycadina AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

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 erythrosora AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Partial shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

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 soils. Evergreen.

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Polystichum munitum AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 75cm plus (32in plus)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

The American sword fern. Well known and long cultivated in this country. Easy and very effective. Evergreen.

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Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 75cm plus (32in plus)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

A most magnificent fern from the Himalayas and Japan, although named after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. The young unfolding fronds are a golden green in the Spring contrasting well with the hairy black midrib and stems. Needs moist conditions though not boggy and avoid dry alkaline soils. Evergreen.

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Polystichum polyblepharum AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 30cm (12in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

From Korea and Japan, glossy fine cut fronds to 60cm across. Evergreen. One of the finest of the good hardy evergreen ferns. Polyblepharum means 'many eyelashes'. A fine, reliable fern.

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Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

A fine divisilobum form of the soft shield fern. A beautiful, elegant form of this easy very tolerant fern even of dry soils. Makes a very good subject for a container.

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Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-multilobum' AGM

Pot size: 1 Litre
Plant ultimate height: 45cm (18in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

syn Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-Densum' A fine medium growing form, with divided pinnae on overlapping pinnules. Very architectual in growth. One of the most popular. More for the shade garden rather than the wild garden.

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Polystichum tsussimense AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 45cm (18in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

This neat and low growing pale green Oriental fern has holly like tips and a mass of silvery white scales which gives it a striking silvery appearance in the cool dark, shady conditions it loves. Evergreen.

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Woodwardia fimbriata AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 100cm plus (36 ins)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Hardy giant chain fern from North America. Fronds tend to go up and outwards not arching over. Evergreen.

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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace'

£10.00

A new burgundy flushed form from the USA. Lovely red flushed foliage all growing season. Deciduous protect from late spring frosts
Height - 30cm
Spread - 40cm
Plant at 40cm centres,
Aspect - Full shade.
Soil - most soils apart from dry or very wet.
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Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

Woodwardia unigemmata AGM

£11.00

A hardy species of the chain fern, down to minus 8* C. Bright red new fronds, ageing to green. For moistish positions in shade. Fronds can be 1.5m long; quite one of the best large hardy ferns and one we are delighted to be able to offer.
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Athyrium niponicum 'Godzilla'

£10.00

A new cultivar, larger growing than other forms. Creates quite a stunning large pot. Best in a courtyard or north wall.
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Polystichum neolabatum

£8.00 (2 or fewer items) £7.50 (3 or more items)

The Asian Saber fern is a super evergreen fern with glossy fronds with a strong upright habit. It is one of the most weather resistant ferns we grow shrugging off even snow with little effect. Upright in growth it is eye catching as a single specimen or interesting planted en masse. The Asian saber fern is very drought tolerant once established. Will form a large rosette with prominent reddish gold scales.
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