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Miscanthus sinensis 'Ferne Osten' (Eulalia 'Ferne Osten')

'Ferne Osten' is a deciduous grass with sparse, arching yellow-green stems and ruby-red flower panicles fading to silver.
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1.5m max. spread

1.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Athyrium filix-femina (Lady fern)

Other names: Tatting fern

A. filix-femina has lacey fronds radiating from a central crown in a fresh green. It is a fast-growing fern forming a clump of lacy, bipinnate, lance-shaped fronds, and the leaf segments have toothed margins. In some plants the midrib is red, in others green.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Rumohra adiantiformis (Leather fern)

Other names: Leatherleaf fern, Iron fern

R. adiantiformis is a tender, variable, clump-forming, evergreen, terrestrial or epiphytic fern with triangular or ovate, bi- to tri-pinnate, leathery, dark green fronds divided into oblong or diamond-shaped segments (pinnae).
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Myrrhis odorata (Sweet cecily)

Other names: Sweet chervil, Sweet Mary, Great chervil, Myrr, Sweet bracken, Anise, British myrrh, Garden myrrh, Sweet fern, Sweet cicely

M. odorata is an erect, herbaceous perennial with pinnate, aromatic, edible, bright green leaves divided into toothed, oblong to lance-shaped segments and, in early summer, branching stems bearing umbels of tiny, star-shaped, white flowers followed by glossy, ridged, brown fruit.decorative seed-pods.
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Dryopteris filix-mas (Male fern)

Other names: Basket fern, Shield fern, Dryopteris filix mas

D. filix-mas is a vigorous, clump-forming, deciduous fern with upright, lance-shaped, bipinnate, mid-green fronds divided into narrowly lance-shaped pinnae with small, oval segments.
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1m max. spread

1.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Platycerium superbum (Giant staghorn fern)

Other names: Staghorn fern

P. superbum is a vigorous yet tender, evergreen, epiphytic fern with large, upright, rounded to kidney-shaped, deeply lobed, grey-green sterile fronds and long, pendent, wedge-shaped, forked, leathery, bright green fertile fronds.
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1.5m max. spread

2m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Osmunda regalis (Royal fern)

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

O. regalis is a hardy fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate fronds with russet-brown spores at the tips. The fronds are flushed red in autumn.
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1m max. spread

2.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Doodia media (Common rasp fern)

Other names: Rasp fern, Pukupuku, Hacksaw fern, Doodia australis

D. media is a tufted, borderline hardy, evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with arching, rough, leathery, lance-shaped, pinnate to pinnatifid, dark green fronds, red or pink when young.
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1.2m max. spread

0.4m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Onychium japonicum (Carrot fern)

Other names: Claw fern, Sichuan lace, Onychium japonicum 'Sichuan Lace', Japanese claw fern

O. japonicum is a clump-forming, borderline hardy, deciduous fern with wiry, black stems bearing upright to arching, dark green, tripinnate fronds with feathery, finely-divided pinnae.
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1m max. spread

0.4m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken)

Other names: Adder's spit, Brake fern, Eagle brake, Eagle fern, Fern of God, Hog brake, Pasture brake, Western brackenfern, Decomposition brackenfern, Hairy brackenfern

P. aquilinum is a vigorous, coarse, rhizomatous, deciduous fern with arching to nearly horizontal, triangular, bi- or tri-pinnate, mid-green fronds.
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2m max. spread

1.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity