Fern Collection

Hardy ferns make some of the best foliage plants for their understated elegance and beauty. Highly reliable and very easy to grow, this selection of some of the top-performing evergreen ferns is perfect for creating year-round interest in shady spots, woodland gardens and damp borders. With a range of heights, shades and textures, they make a beautiful collection planted together, but also associate beautifully with other woodland or shade plants such as hostas, hellebores and heuchera. All of these ferns have won RHS Awards of Garden Merit for their outstanding garden performance.

This Fern Collection contains one 30mm plug plant of each of the following varieties:

• Blechnum spicant (hard fern or deer fern) – a handsome fern forming a rosette of spreading, feathery, dark green fronds. RHS AGM. Height: 50cm (20"). Spread: 45cm (18").
• Asplenium scolopendrium (hart’s tongue fern) – a robust species that will quickly spread to form natural looking colonies, producing glossy, upright, undivided fronds. RHS AGM. Height and spread: 60cm (24").
• Athyrium niponicum ‘Metallicum’ (painted lady fern) – shimmering bronze and silvery fronds that arch gracefully. As the seasons change, the foliage progresses through tints of silver, purple and red. RHS AGM. Height: 40cm (16"). Spread: 60cm (24"). 
• Cyrtomium fortunei –upright ‘shuttlecocks’ of light green fronds with contrasting black stems. RHS AGM. Height: 40cm (16"). Spread: 60cm (24"). 
• Dryopteris cristata ‘The King’ – a handsome fern producing tall fronds with intricately branched tips. RHS AGM. Height: 120cm (47"). Spread: 100cm (39").
• Polystichium tsussimense (Korean rock fern) – glossy, upright, dark green fronds. Ideal for underplanting or planting in drifts in shady spots. RHS AGM. Height and spread: 50cm (20").