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Osmunda regalis 'Purpurascens' (Royal fern 'Purpurascens' )

Other names: Buckhorn brake 'Purpurascens', Herb christopher 'Purpurascens', Blooming fern 'Purpurascens', Rusty fern 'Purpurascens', Osmund royal 'Purpurascens', King fern 'Purpurascens', Common flowering fern 'Purpurascens', Ditch fern 'Purpurascens', Water fern 'Purpurascens'

'Purpurascens' is a hardy, deciduous fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate, green fronds. The fiddleheads are flushed purple in spring and the fronds turn golden in the autumn.
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1.2m max. spread

2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Adiantum pedatum (Maidenhair fern)

Other names: American maidenhair

A. pedatum is a hardy, deciduous fern. In early spring, delicate, mid-green leaves unfurl on dark brown, wiry stems and last until autumn.
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0.4m max. spread

0.4m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris dilatata (Broad buckler fern)

D. dilatata is a vigorous, deciduous to semi-evergreen fern bearing shuttlecock-like rosettes of erect to arching, broadly triangular or ovate, tripinnate, dark-green fronds with toothed segments. Frond stalks and mid-ribs are covered with prominent, dark brown scales.
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1.2m max. spread

0.9m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Gymnocarpium dryopteris 'Plumosum' (Oak fern 'Plumosum')

'Plumosum' is a low-growing, spreading, deciduous fern with triangular, 3-pinnate fronds, each segment (pinnae) is triangular and divided into broadly ovate, overlapping, toothed, scalloped segments. Fronds are light to yellow-green when young, turning dark green with age.
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0.5m max. spread

0.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Polystichum setiferum (Divisilobum Group) 'Divisilobum Densum' (Soft shield fern 'Divisilobum Densum')

'Divisilobum Densum' is a spreading, evergreen or semi-evergreen fern, with arching, soft, lance-shaped, tri-pinnate, dark green fronds with overlapping pinnae.
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0.6m max. spread

0.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Asplenium bulbiferum (Hen and chickens fern)

Other names: Mother spleenwort, New Zealand common spleenwort

A. bulbiferum is an evergreen fern with soft, feathery dark green fronds.
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0.75m max. spread

0.75m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Athyrium niponicum 'Godzilla' (Painted fern 'Godzilla')

Other names: Japanese painted fern 'Godzilla'

'Godzilla' is a rhizomatous, deciduous fern forming a wide clump with reddish-purple stems bearing upright to arching, lance-shaped, bi- or tri-pinnate, crested, silvery grey-green fronds.
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1.8m max. spread

0.9m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Arachniodes simplicior (East Indian holly fern)

Other names: Indian holly fern, Simplicior holly fern, Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata', Variegated East Indian holly fern, Arachnoides aristata 'Variegata'

A. simplicior is a tender to half-hardy, slow-growing, evergreen fern bearing thick, glossy, broadly-triangular, dark green fronds divided into three or four pinnae (segments) with sharply-pointed pinnules and a prominent yellow or grey stripe down the centre of each pinnae.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Matteuccia orientalis (Oriental ostrich fern)

Other names: Matteuccia japonica , Onoclea orientalis

M. orientalis is a deciduous fern with spreading, widely ovate, pinnate, bright green sterile fronds surrounding long, narrower, fertile fronds that emerge near black and turn reddish-brown in autumn.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Linearis Polydactyla' (Male fern 'Linearis Polydactyla')

Other names: Many-fingered male fern, Slender crested male fern

'Linearis Polydactyla' is a robust, deciduous to semi-evergreen fern forming a large, shuttlecock-like clump of lance-shaped, forked, erect to arching, mid- to bright green fronds with narrow, widely-spaced pinnae.
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1.2m max. spread

1.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity