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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Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

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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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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

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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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Polystichum setiferum 'Divisilobum Wollaston'

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Long and lacy fronds on this fine form. Evergreen. Good in dry shade.
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Galium odoratum

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A very useful groundcover for tough, dry shady conditions.

A mythical thug for a shady spot where it can spread and display its fragrant white flowers in Spring. Will tolerate dry soils. It was used most effectively as ground cover in a small, shady courtyard show garden at Chelsea 2012, and can be seen in the walled garden at NT Mottisfont forming a wonderful ground cover under a fig tree.
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Galium will spread quite vigorously, but it is a plant that will survive the toughest of dry shady conditions.
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Geranium nodosum

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Bluish pearly pink flowers. A nice form of this woodland toughy from the Old Rectory, Burghfield. Will seed around to a certain extent and thrive in pretty much the driest position. An incredibly useful Geranium, a great candidate for underplanting in shaded and wooded spots. Wonderful for natural or semi wild planting schemes.
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Polystichum setiferum 'Rotundatum Ramosum'