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 |
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 |
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0.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Thelypteris palustris (Marsh fern)
Other names: Ground fern, Marsh buckler fern, Thelypteris thelypteroides, Eastern marsh fern, Meadow fern
T. palustris is a rhizomatous, deciduous fern with erect, long-stalked, lance-shaped, pinnate, light green fronds divided into deeply lobed, narrowly lance-shaped pinnae.
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1m max. spread |
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0.6m 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 |
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 |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Athyrium filix-femina 'Frizelliae' (Tatting fern)
Other names: Mrs. Frizell's lady fern, Lady fern 'Frizelliae' , Beaded lady fern
'Frizelliae' is an upright, clump-forming, slowly-spreading, deciduous fern bearing linear, arching, light green fronds with rounded, finely-lobed pinnae along each side of the midribs.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.3m 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 |
Polypodium cambricum 'Richard Kayse' (Welsh polypody 'Richard Kayse')
Other names: Southern polypody 'Richard Kayse', Polypodium vulgare subsp. serratum 'Richard Kayse', Polypodium australe 'Richard Kayse'
'Richard Kayse' is a terrestrial, evergreen fern bearing lance-shaped to triangular-oval, bipinnate, leathery, mid- to bright green fronds with broad, deeply-cut, feathery pinnae.
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0.25m max. spread |
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0.35m max. height |
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2-5 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 |
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