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Leptinella potentillina (Brass buttons)

Other names: Verdigris brass buttons, Green brass buttons, Verdigris mini ferns, Cotula potentilloides

L. potentillina is a cushion to mat-forming, spreading, evergreen perennial with pinnate, finely-divided, purple-to bronze-flushed, mid- to bright green leaves and insignificant yellow flower heads in summer.
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0.4m max. spread

0.05m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

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

Jacaranda mimosifolia (Green ebony tree)

Other names: Jacaranda acutifolia, Jacaranda ovalifolia, Jacaranda ovatifolia, Blue jacaranda, Fern tree

J. mimosifolia is a tender, spreading, deciduous tree bearing broad, pinnate leaves with small, narrowly elliptic, softly-hairy, bright green leaflets. Pyramidal panicles of white-throated, purple-blue flowers bloom on leafless branches or with emerging leaves in spring to early summer, followed by woody, disc-shaped, brown seed pods.
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10m max. spread

15m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Pellaea rotundifolia (Button fern)

Other names: Roundleaf Fern

P. rotundifolia is a tuft-forming, evergreen fern with narrowly oblong, pinnate, leathery, glossy, dark green fronds with red-flushed midribs and rounded segments (pinnae) with finely scalloped margins.
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0.4m max. spread

0.3m 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

Salvinia natans (Floating fern)

Other names: Floating watermoss, Water butterfly wings, Marsilea natans, Salvinia europaea

S. natans is a tender, floating, aquatic, annual fern with paired, elliptic, pale green leaves, each pair with a submerged, root-like leaf.
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0.5m max. spread

0.05m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Azolla filiculoides (Water fern)

Other names: Fairy moss, Azolla caroliniana

A. filiculoides is a tender floating aquatic plant. It has small, fern-like foliage that is red or purple in sun or green to blue-green in shade.
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0m max. spread

0.01m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Blechnum spicant (Hard fern)

Other names: Rusty back, Snake fern, Deer fern

B. spicant is a small evergreen fern with spreading, narrow, dark-green fronds bearing comb-like leaves.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Zamioculcas zamiifolia (Fern arum)

Other names: Aroid palm , Zanzibar gem, ZZ plant, Z-Z plant

Z. zamiifolia is a tender, evergreen perennial, typically grown as an indoor plant, with pinnate, glossy, dark green leaves divided into paired, elliptic to ovate leaflets. Green spathes occasionally appearing at the base of the leaves in summer are followed by white fruit.
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0.5m max. spread

0.9m max. height

5-10 years to maturity