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 |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Polystichum polyblepharum 'Jade' (Japanese tassel fern 'Jade')
'Jade' is a clump-forming, evergreen fern with arching, lance-shaped, bipinnate fronds divided into glossy, toothed, oblong to ovate, dark green pinnae, yellow green when young.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside' (Broad buckler fern 'Crispa Whiteside' )
'Crispa Whiteside' is a deciduous to semi-evergreen fern producing an erect rhizome bearing shuttlecock-like rosettes of upright, arching, triangular-ovate, tripinnate dark green fronds, yellow-green when new, with crisped, toothed segments. Frond mid-ribs and stalks have conspicuous, dark brown scales with darker centres.
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1.2m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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 |
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2m max. height |
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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 |
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0.2m max. height |
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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 |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Dryopteris affinis (Polydactyla Group) 'Polydactyla Dadds' (Scaly male fern 'Polydactyla Dadds')
Other names: Many-fingered male fern 'Polydactyla Dadds', Golden male fern 'Polydactyla Dadds'
'Polydactyla Dadds' is a vigorous, erect, semi-evergreen fern forming a rosette of narrow, arching, dark green fronds with multi-forked pinnae.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Dryopteris affinis 'Congesta Cristata' (Scaly male fern 'Congesta Cristata')
'Congesta Cristata' is a dwarf, semi-evergreen fern forming a congested rosette of erect to arching, lance-shaped dark green fronds, pale green when young in spring, and heavily crested at each frond apex.
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0.2m max. spread |
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0.2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
'Polydactyla Mappleback' is a vigorous, upright, semi-evergreen fern forming a rosette of narrow, arching, crested and forked, dark green fronds with crested pinnae.
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1m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Athyrium vidalii (Vidal's lady fern)
Other names: Japanese lady fern
A. vidalii is a deciduous fern with upright to arching, purple-red stems bearing light to yellow-green fronds, red-flushed when young.
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0.7m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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