Ferns Suitable for Dry Shade.

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Asplenium scolopendrium 'Cristatum'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 30cm (12in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Very highly crested and evergreen.

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3. Polypodium vulgare 'Bifidomultifidum'

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Dryopteris filix-mas 'Linearis Polydactyla' AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Pinnae reduced to ribs with long terminal crests on this graceful open fern. Most offered in the trade are not true but are inferior forms. Deciduous.

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1. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 75cm plus (32in plus)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.

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1. Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

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3. Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

Dryopteris affinis 'Pinderi'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 75cm plus (32in plus)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Narrow fronds on this strong growing affinis form. As with all affinis cultivars very good in dry shade.

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1. Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

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3. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

Polypodium vulgare 'Bifidomultifidum'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 30cm (12in)
Growing condition: Full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Crested form of the native polypody, good ground cover particularly for dry shade. In common with other species looks best in Winter.

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Price: (3 or more plants) £6.50

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People who bought this item also bought:

1. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

2. Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

3. Polystichum setiferum 'Divisilobum Wollaston'

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Polystichum aculeatum AGM

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Native hard shield fern with glossy stiff leathery fronds. Tolerant of most soils and happy with some chalk in the soil. Evergreen.

Price: (2 or fewer plants) £7.00
Price: (3 or more plants) £6.50

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People who bought this item also bought:

1. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

2. Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

3. Polystichum setiferum 'Divisilobum Wollaston'

Polystichum setiferum 'Divisilobum Wollaston'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

Long and lacy fronds on this fine form. Evergreen. Good in dry shade.

Price: (2 or fewer plants) £7.00
Price: (3 or more plants) £6.50

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People who bought this item also bought:

1. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

2. Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

3. Polystichum aculeatum AGM

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Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

Pot size: 9cm
Plant ultimate height: 60cm (24in)
Growing condition: Partial - full shade
Flowering season: N/A to N/A

A fine divisilobum form of the soft shield fern. A beautiful, elegant form of this easy very tolerant fern even of dry soils. Makes a very good subject for a container.

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People who bought this item also bought:

1. Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

2. Polystichum aculeatum AGM

3. Polystichum setiferum 'Divisilobum Wollaston'

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Polypodium vulgare 'Bifidomultifidum'

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Crested form of the native polypody, good ground cover particularly for dry shade. In common with other species looks best in Winter.
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Polypodium cambricum 'Whitely's Giant'

£8.00

A superb large growing form of this easy native Polypodium. Slightly serrated edges to the pinnules to 45cm tall. Summer dormant when you don't notice it anyway.
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Asplenium trichomanes AGM

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The native maidenhair spleenwort, common around here in walls, but good at the front of a shady border, trough or rock garden. Evergreen. A little beauty.
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Saxifraga stolonifera 'Maroon Beauty'

£6.50

Very attractive dark purple/green/silver mottled foliage all year, somewhat larger than 'Cuscutiformis' and white red bracted flowers in Spring. Spreads when happy. Stunning when planted as a mass or even in a container.

Photographed here with Astrantia, Tiarella and Geranium.
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Polypodium calirhiza 'Sarah Lyman'

£8.00

A species from Western USA and Mexico. Quite vigorous. In this form has a very upright habit with cut and acute pointed pinnae and fronds. A very lovely introduction looking like some of the P. cambricum forms.
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Polypodium cambricum 'Grandiceps Fox' AGM

£8.95

A mid growing cambricum form with a broad terminal crest and smaller side crest. Summer deciduous.
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