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Adiantum aleuticum  Western Maidenhair               
Native.  Ht.40cm. Z3.  Recently, this western form of Maidenhair fern has been separated from the eastern form, A. pedatum, as a separate species.  This form has slightly more erect fronds and the pinnae overlap a touch, but both plants are very similar.  To make matters worse,  A.pedatum is still found out west in disjunct populations.

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Adiantum aleuticum imbricatum
Ht.15-30cm. Z2.  This is a rarely offered and very lovely dwarf form of the typical Maidenhair Fern.  It quickly forms a nice, full clump. 

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Adiantum pedatum  Maidenhair Fern
Native.  Ht.40cm.  Z3.  Deciduous.  Delicate fan shaped fronds with green lacy leaves set atop black shiny stems.  Plant in moist humus-rich soil in shade to part shade.  Most Northwest plants are now considered A.aleuticum but not all. At any rate, both are very similar.

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Adiantum venustum Himalayan Maidenhair Fern

Ht.40cm.  Z5. This fantastic maidenhair is evergreen in most areas. The new growth is pinkish. It makes an excellent groundcover in a shady spot and is one of the most sought-after ferns.

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Arachniodes aristata var. variegata Variegated East Indian Holly Fern  
Ht.30-60cm.  Z6.  Evergreen. This extremely showy fern has dark, waxy green, broadly triangular fronds with a light yellow-green band running along the pinna axis.

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Arachniodes miqueliana Miquel’s Fern
Ht.45cm.  Z5. The long creeping rhizome slowly makes a nice cluster in the garden over time. This is another great fern from Asia.

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Asplenium ebenoides Dragontail Fern
N.A.Native. Ht.15cm Z4.  An interesting natural hybrid fern with long narow fronds with skinny tips. Slugs like to eat this one.

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Asplenium trichomanes Maidenhair Spleenwort

Native.  Ht. 30cm.  Z2.  Evergreen.  Vigorous, small fern with deep green, maidenhair fern-type foliage.  Best in dryish rockery or walls in the shade to part shade. Our most popular small Fern.

 

Asplenium trichomanes Cristatum Crested Maidenhair Spleenwort

Ht. 30cm.  Z2.  Evergreen.  We have the crested form of the species!  The end of most fronds branches into a crest.  Plants will be small for spring. This one is rarely offered.
 
Athyrium asplenioides Southern Lady Fern
N.A.Native. Ht.45-90cm. Z4.  Broad triangular upright fronds form nice clumps over time.  Shade to part sun.

 

Athyrium Branford Rambler Running Lady Fern
Ht.45-60cm.  Z4. A hybrid between Athyrium filix femina and Athyrium nipponicum.  A great deciduous groundcover fern with lovely green foliage and red tones on the stem.

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Athyrium filix‑femina  ( A. cyclosorum) Lady Fern
Native. Ht. 60-150cm. Z2.  Deciduous. Lacy looking fronds are bright green.  Clumps are dense, easy to grow, great in the shade to part sun, or even in the sun in a wet site.  

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Athyrium filix-femina `Frizelliae' Tatting Fern
Ht. 30-45cm.  Z2.   This distinctive form of the lady fern has small, rounded pinnae, giving the fronds a very narrow, almost necklace-like appearance.

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Athyrium filix-femina `Lady in Red'
Ht. 60-150cm. Z2. This selection tends to have bright red stems, especially early in the year.

 

Athyrium filix femina minutissimum `Dwarf Form’
Ht.20-30cm. Z2. A great dwarf selection that only gets 12” tall in most gardens.

 

Athyrium filix-femina `Rotstiel' Red Ribbed Lady Fern
Ht. 60-150cm. Z2.  This selection tends to have red stems and stipes with the typical green pinnae.

 

Athyrium filix-femina `Victoriae type'
Ht.  70-100cm.  Z2.  This spectacular fern has paired (forked at their base) narrow pinnae with crested tips, which (like `Fieldiae') are arranged into crosses, thereby forming a latticework of diamond-shaped spaces.  Truly the Queen of Green. 

 

Athyrium filix-femina `Vernoniae ' Lady Fern
Ht. 60-75cm.  Z2.  Deciduous.  This distinctive selection has crisped fronds with each pinnulet having a lacy edge.  Found in the 1850s'.

 

Athyrium niponicum `Pictum' Japanese Painted Fern
Ht. 30-45cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.  Fronds are a soft, metallic grey colour with reddish or bluish hues.   Shade to part shade.  

 

Athyrium niponicum `Red Beauty' Red beauty Japanese Painted Fern 
Ht. 30-45cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.   Broad, upright habit with the grey foliage of Pictum, it also has reddish-brown tints which are especially attractive in the young foliage.

 

Athyrium niponicum `Godzilla' Japanese Painted Fern   
Ht. 90cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.   Broad, large clump, clump-forming habit with the grey foliage of Pictum, it also has attractive, reddish-brown tints, which are especially attractive in the young foliage.

 

Athyrium otophorum  Eared Lady Fern
Ht.  30-45cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.  This beautiful fern has pale green young fronds with maroon-coloured stems.  With age, the fronds become dusky green in colour with dark red stems. Very easy.

 

Athyrium pycnocarpon ( Diplazium pycnocarpon) Glade Fern
N.A.Native. Ht 60-90cmZ3.   Arching green fronds with undivided lance-shaped pinnae.  Slowly forms a colony.

 

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Blechnum discolor Crown Fern
Z8.   These are nice mature ferns with a 5-7cm diameter, 10-20cm tall trunk, and light green fronds forming a nice shuttlecock. Over time, they form a colony of crowns.

 

Blechnum penna-marina
Ht.10-20cm.  Z5.  Evergreen. This form of the species is smaller than most.  Fertile fronds are erect and sterile fronds lay more or less flat.  New growth is reddish-rose in colour.  Good for edging a semi-shaded path or as a small-scale ground cover.
 
Blechnum spicant  Deer Fern
Native.  Ht.  20-30cm.   Z5.  Evergreen. Dark green sterile fronds form regular flat rosettes.  Narrow fertile fronds are held vertically

 

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Cryptogramma acrostichoides Parsley Fern
Native.  Ht. 12cm.  Z2.  Leathery parsley-like sterile fronds are wintergreen and die back in spring. Fertile fronds are taller and slender and are deciduous in autumn. 

 

Cyrtomium falcatum  Japanese Holly Fern
Ht. 30-40cm.  Z7.  Evergreen.  Fronds look like Oregon Grape leaves; dark green, shiny and leathery.  Individual pinnae look like holly leaves. Not as coarsely toothed as C.falcatum Rochfordii.  Shade to part sun.

 

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Dennstaedtia punctilobula Hayscented Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 45-90cm.  Z3.  Deciduous.  This delicate-looking fern has light green, upright, arching fronds.  It is found in light shade or open sun and spreads by slender underground rhizomes.  It turns a soft yellow colour in fall. A great groundcover fern.

 

Deparia petersenii
Ht 30cmZ6. This medium-sized fern from the Philippines with pea-green foliage can even be grown in full sun if given enough moisture.

 

Deparia pycnosora (Athyrium pycnosorum) 
Ht.90cm.  Z4. The ‘Tapering Glade Fern’ is a superb deciduous fern for the woodland garden with green pubescent fronds.

 

Dicksonia antarctica Tasmanian Tree Fern
Fronds 50-250cm.  Trunk Ht. 3-10Meters.  Z7-8.  Evergreen.  This beautiful tree fern has a spreading crown of glossy green arching fronds atop a massive fibrous stem.  At a young age it looks like a normal fern. Frond length increases rapidly but trunk height increases slowly.  Grow in shade, sun or indoors.

 

Dicksonia fibrosa Wheki Ponga Tree Fern 
Available at the nursery only too large to ship
Z9 (8). A nice tree fern with a thick stem and a large, arching crown of dark green leathery fronds.

 

Dicksonia squarrosa Wheki Tree Fern
Larger sizes at the nursery too large to ship
Z9. Slender trunk with dark, shiny, prickly, arching deep green fronds up to 2 meters in length.

 

Dryopteris affinis Golden-scaled Male Fern 
Ht. 60-150cm. Z4.  Evergreen.  This is a large fern which looks similar to D.filix-mas, except the fronds are more leathery, and the stipe is covered in golden scales.  An adaptable fern that is happy in the shade as well as in part sun.  Many selections were made during the Victorian fern craze.
 

Dryopteris affinis `Crispa ' Crisped  Golden-scaled Male Fern
Ht. 25-35cm.  Z4.  A beautiful small fern with crisped fronds.

 

Dryopteris affinis `Cristata Angustata' Narrow Crested Golden-scaled Male Fern   

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Ht. 45-60cm.  Z4.  Evergreen. This is similar to `The King,' but the fronds are narrower and shorter, and the crests are fuller.

 

Dryopteris affinis `Cristata The King' 
Ht. 70-100cm.  Z4.  Evergreen.   New frond stalks are densely covered in golden brown scales.  Old fronds are dark, glossy green, and leathery.  Fronds are crested when mature. Robust fern for shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris affinis cambrensis Insubrica
This is a subspecies of dryopteris affinis.

 

Dryopteris affinis `Pinderii' Narrow Golden scaled Male Fern
Ht. 70-90cm.  Z4.  Evergreen.  An elegant version of the species with very narrow fronds much tapered at both base and apex.  Somewhat similar to D. filix-mas ‘Barnesii’.

 

Dryopteris affinis `Polydactyla Dadds’             
Ht.60-120cm.  Z4.  Evergreen.  This is similar to `The King', but the fronds are wider, and the crests are long finger-like tassels rather than wide fans.

 

Dryopteris atrata Shaggy Sheild Fern
Ht. 20-50cm. Z7.  Evergreen.  Light green fronds with distinctive black hairs (scales) which clothe the frond stalk.  Shade to part sun. Very easy to grow.

 

Dryopteris  x  australis
Ht. 100-150cm. Z5.  One of the great fens for the garden.   Tall slender .dark green fronds.

 

Dryopteris austriaca 

Until recently, this was the correct name for Spiny Wood Fern. It has now been changed to D.expansa and the European equivalent has been restored to D.dilatata.  In any case they are both similar, easy to grow ferns.

 

Dryopteris carthusiana Narrow Buckler Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 50-90cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Fronds are light green and widely used by florists for cut foliage.  It is very easy for fern to grow in shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris celsa Log Fern
N.A.Native. Ht. 75-120cm. Z5. Evergreen. This is an easy-to-grow, large, dark green, shiny-leaved fern that normally grows on rotting logs or in rich soil in a woodland setting.  

 

Dryopteris x complexa Robust  Male Fern
Native.  Ht. 60-150cm.  Z2.  Semi-evergreen.  A hybrid with elegant fronds of lacy dark green leaves.  Robust and easy to grow fern in shade to part sun.

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Dryopteris clintoniana
Ht. 60-90cm. Z4.  Narrowly lance-shaped fronds on this elegant, easy-to-grow fern. We’ve sold this as D.claytoniana in the past.

 

Dryopteris crassirhizoma  (Dryopteris bushiana) Thick-stemmed Wood Fern         
Ht. 60-105cm.  Z5.  Semi-evergreen. This fern's massive crown and stems are covered with long brown scales. The fronds form a perfect vase shape on the forest floor, making it an ideal specimen plant.

 

Dryopteris cristata
Native. Ht.30-90cm.  Z3.  Evergreen. This is a nice fern with stiffly erect fertile fronds, with the pinnae at right angles to the plane of the fronds. The sterile leaves are more arching.

 

Dryopteris dilatata `Jimmy Dyce' Jimmy's Upright Broad Buckler Fern
Ht. 50-60cm.  Z4.  Evergreen. This is a very nice dark green, stiffly erect fern. Jimmy Dyce originally collected it from the Isle of Arron. It is easy to grow in shade to part sun. 

 

Dryopteris dilatata `Lepidota Cristata' Lacy Crested Broad Buckler Fern
Ht. 25-40cm.  Z4.  Evergreen.  Finely cut dark green leaflets with crested tips make the fronds resemble parsley.  Shade to part sun, very easy to grow.

 

Dryopteris dilatata `Recurvata' Recurved Broad Buckler Fern
Ht. 45-60cm.  Z4.  Evergreen.  Lacy looking, triangular fronds with edges and tips that curl down so the overall effect is almost weeping.  Shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris erythrosora Autumn Fern
Ht. 20-45cm.  Z6.  Evergreen.  New fronds are coppery-bronze, contrasting against the older dark green fronds.  Easy to grow in shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris erythrosora `Prolifica' Proliferous Autumn Fern
Ht. 20-45cm.  Z6.  Evergreen.  Similar to D.erythrosora, it has narrower segments, which make it lacier in appearance. Rarely, plantlets are produced on the upper surface along the midriff of the frond.

 

Dryopteris expansa Spiny Wood Fern or Broad Buckler Fern
Native. Ht. 60-100cm. Z4. Evergreen. Until recently, this fern was known as D.austriaca or part of the D.dilatata complex. It has many different Latin and common names, so don't get confused. It is a vigorous fern that forms a rosette of broad, triangular medium green fronds. Shade to part sun; easy to grow.

 

Dryopteris filix‑mas 
Native.  Ht. 60-90cm.  Z2.  Semi-evergreen.  Elegant fronds of lacy dark green leaves.  Robust and easy to grow fern in shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris filix-mas `Crispa Cristata' 
Ht. 60-90cm.  Z2.  Semi-evergreen.  The fronds are crispy with lightly crested pinnae and frond tips.

 

Dryopteris filix-mas `Linearis polydactyla' Many Fingered Male Fern
Ht.  50-80cm.  Z4.  Semi-evergreen.  Lacy, finely textured fronds with forks or crests at the tips of each leaflet.  Shade to part sun.

 

Dryopteris goldiana Goldy's wood fern
Ht.100-130cm.  Z3.  Deciduous. Large triangular firmly textured fronds from a short creeping rhizome. Makes an attractive stand with arching fronds. New fiddleheads in spring are covered with showy, shaggy brownish scales.

 

Dryopetris laeta
Ht. 30-60cm.  Z5.  Semi-evergreen.  This medium-sized fern has light green, triangular fronds.  Very easy to grow in shade to part sun.

 

Dryopetris ludoviciana  Southern Wood Fern
Ht. 60-90  Z5.  Semi-evergreen.  A large clumping fern with shiny upright fronds.

 

Dryopteris marginalis Leather Wood Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 45-60cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.  The fronds are dark blue-green.  Great for contrast against other ferns. Very easy to grow in shade to part sun. Good in rock gardens.

 

Dryopteris pseudo-filix-mas Mexican Male Fern
Ht. 75-120cm. Z5. This vigorous, fully hardy fern from Mexico is large, upright, and good-looking.

 

Dryopteris sieboldii Siebold's Wood Fern
Ht.30-60cm.  Z6.  Evergreen.  A striking fern with up to five
pairs of dark green, leathery, undivided pinnae with a terminal pinnae 20-30cm long.  The new fronds are light green.

 

Dryopteris stewartii Stewart’s Wood Fern
Ht.  90-120cm.  Z6.  Semi-evergreen. A large fern with light green broadly triangular fronds.

 

Dryopteris  wallichiana Wallich’s Wood Fern
N.A.Native. Ht.60-120cm  Z4.  Evergreen.  Forms strong upright clumps of large triangular dark green fronds with a contrasting dark stem. New fronds are light green to golden with numerous dark reddish scales.  With time, plants will form a short trunk.  A nice fern for shade to semi-shade.

 

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Gymnocarpium dryopteris Oak Fern
Native.  Ht. 20-40cm.  Z2.  Deciduous.  Dainty, lacy, triangular fronds are held horizontally under stalks. Spreads by rhizome to form small patches. It is best in the shade. Great as a ground cover in the woodland garden.

 

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Lygodium japonicum Japanese Climbing Fern
Ht.3-5M. Z7. Japanese climbing fern is a lovely, self-clinging fern with lacy fronds up to 5 meters in height! It's great to let scamper through open shrubs or up trees.

 

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Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich Fern
Native.  Ht. 40-150cm.  Z4.  Deciduous. Underground rhizomes spread Olive-green, sterile fronds held in funnel-shaped clusters.  Fertile fronds appear in the center of the cluster and turn a rust-brown color.  Vigorous, easy fern to grow in shade to part sun.

 

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Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive Fern
N.A.Native. Ht. 30-60cm.  Z4.  Deciduous.  The large fertile fronds are leafy and deeply lobed, very un-fern-like.  The sterile fronds are stiff and erect and have spore-bearing pinnae aligned like a string of beads at their tips.  Spreads by rhizome.  Shade to part sun.

 

Osmunda cinnamomia Cinnamon Fern
N.A.Native. Ht. 90-150cm. Z4. Deciduous. Sterile, dark green, deeply lobed fronds are held in vase-shaped clusters. Fertile fronds are erect and held centrally, lack leaves, and have terminal panicles that turn from green to cinnamon in color. Imagine a perfect fern with nice arching fronds and a bunch of cinnamon-coloured feather dusters in the center. It's hard to beat this species once established. 

 

Osmunda claytoniana Interrupted Fern
N.A.Native. Ht.60-120cm. Z2. The Fronds resemble the Cinnamon Fern except that the vegetative frond is interrupted in the middle by fertile pinnae. The fertile pinnae are covered in sporangia and are jet black in colour, making this a unique and showy fern. It is easy to grow in shade or sun.

 

Osmunda regalis Royal Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 90-150cm.  Z3.  Deciduous.  A majestic fern that forms a large crown, and sends out a ring of arching fronds made up of rounded leaflets.  Fertile fronds stand erect in the center of the clump and have a terminal panicle that turns golden brown. Grow in the shade to full sun if in a bog.

 

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Phyllitis scolopendrium
Z5. Ht 30cm. Evergreen. Strap-shaped fronds shaped like a tongue.

 

Polypodium glycerhiza Licorice Fern

10cm pot $6.00ea
Native.  Ht. 10-40cm.  Z6.  Summer Deciduous.  This creeping fern grows on trees and rock outcrops.  It goes dormant in the dry summer and is green all winter.  Rhizomes have a sweet licorice taste.  Great on stumps or rock walls in the shade to part sun.

 

Polypodium scouleri Leathery Polypody
Native. Ht.10-35cm. Z7. This is simply the showiest of the polypodies. It has deep, dark green, extremely glossy, leathery fronds. This fantastic creeping fern is slow to spread but worth the wait.  We offer small divisions. It often takes a full year for this fern to settle in and start to spread.

 

Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 30-60cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Fronds are a leathery, dul ldark green.  Used as cut foliage by florists.  Nice large fern, similar to P. munitum, for shade to part sun.

 

Polystichum aculeatum Hard Shield Fern
Ht. 75-90cm.  Z4.  Evergreen. Glossy dark green stiff fronds with reddish brown scales. This is a nice large fern, similar to P. setiferum but stiffer. Plant in the shade to part sun.

 

Polystichum andersonii
Native. Ht40-80cm. Z3.  A rarely offered large native fern with nice lacy upright fronds.

 

Polystichum braunii Braun's Holly Fern
Native. Ht. 30-60cm. Z5. Semi-evergreen. Dark green fronds with golden brown scales on the stalks. The new foliage has a silvery flush. This is a nice, dense-growing, mid-sized fern.

 

Polystichum makinoi Makinoi’s Holly Fern
Ht.45-60cm.  Z5. One of the best evergreen ferns!!  Dark, glossy, evergreen fronds make a spectacular backdrop for your shade garden.  Originates from the mountains of China

 

Polystichum munitum Sword Fern
Native. Ht. 30-120cm. Z5. Evergreen. This fantastic and much underused fern has glossy dark green, leathery fronds that form dense clumps. It is great for naturalizing and is good in dry to moist shade. 

 

Polystichum neolobatum
Ht.45-60cm. Z5. A great evergreen fern with very stiff, glossy green fronds. These ferns stand up to snow better than most.

 

Polystichum polyblepharum Tassel Fern
Ht. 60-75cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Very glossy dark green fronds contrast nicely with the light green, tassel-like, newly emerging fronds.  Very shiny, attractive fern for shade to part sun.

 

Polystichum retro paleaceum Narrow Tassel Fern
Ht. 90cm. Z5. Evergreen. A nice new fern from Japan with soft green evergreen fronds.  New fronds emerge early.

 

Polystichum rigens
Z5. Evergreen. A great evergreen fern from Japan with rigid glossy, leathery fronds held in an erect crown. New fronds are tinted a delightful yellow in the spring and quickly age to green.

 

Polystichum setiferum Soft Shield Fern
Ht. 50-150cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.   This fern forms a ground-hugging rosette of spreading fronds which are attractively dissected and soft to the touch.  Stalks covered with brown, chaffy scales. Large fern for shade to part sun.

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Polystichum setiferum Bevis Soft Shield Fern
Ht. 50-150cm.  Z5.  Evergreen. This elegant form is grown from spores, so it should be called "Bevis Group." It has upright, arching, lance-shaped fronds with narrow pinnules that are incurved and overlapping near the tip of the fronds. It is easy and grows well even in dry shade ( once established).

 

Polystichum setiferum `Dahlem'  Dahlem Fern
Ht. 75cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Nearly erect, narrow, triangular stiff fronds make this newer selection of divisilobum worth a spot in the garden.

 

Polystichum setiferum `Divisilobum' Divided Soft Shield Fern
Ht.  25-50cm.  Z5.  Evergreen. Fronds are four times divided into finely cut segments. This beautiful medium-sized fern is suitable year-round for shade to part sun.

 

Polystichum setiferum `Herrenhausen'
Ht.50-70cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  This new variety from Germany is a `Divisilobum' type with proliferous buds (baby ferns grow from buds on old fronds). New growth has a wonderful, almost silver-gray quality.

 

Polystichum setiferum `Plumosum'
Ht.60-90cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Glossy, grass-green plume-like fronds are four times divided and have overlapping pinnae.

 

Polystichum setiferum `Plumoso-densum’(Plumoso-multilobum) Downy Filigree Fern          
Ht.60-90cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  Similar to `Plumosum' but the pinnules are divided into segments that are not narrowed.  The overall effect is a much fuller frond. 

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Polystichum setiferum `Proliferum'
Ht. 40-60cm.  Z5.  Evergreen.  This is similar to the species but is lacier in appearance and smaller, with proliferous buds along the mid-rib on mature fronds.

 

Polystichum setiferum rotundatum cristatum Crested Soft Shield Fern.             
Ht.30-60m. Z5.   A great form with a simple crest at the apex of the frond and numerous proliferous bulbils scattered down the mid-rib.   

 

Polystichum tsus-simense Korean Rock Fern
Ht. 20-30cm.  Z8.  Evergreen. Neat, compact clumps of dark green fronds with dark stems and ribs. The new fronds are purplish green when young. This is a nice small fern for shade to part sun.

 

Polystichum xiphophyllum Sword Leaved Holly Fern
Ht. 30-40cm.  Z6.  Evergreen.  A wonderful small compact fern from China.

 

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Thelypteris decursive pinnata  Japanese beech Fern
Ht. 40cm. Z5 The narrow upright, bright, light green fronds are held stiffly vertical making this fern noticeable from a distance.. The bright colour and form add some punch to a shady spot.

 

Thelypteris palustris Narrow Beech Fern
N.A.Native.  Ht. 45-75cm.  Z2.  Deciduous.  Pale bluish-green, thinly textured, triangular fronds arise from long creeping rhizomes.

 

Thelypteris phegopteris Narrow Beech Fern
Native.  Ht. 10-45cm.  Z2.  Deciduous.  Pale green, thinly textured, triangular fronds arise from long creeping rhizomes.  This native fern likes a shady humus-rich site to grow in.

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Woodwardia fimbriata Giant Chain Fern
Native.  Ht. 100-200cm.  Z8-9.  Semi-Evergreen.  This large fern forms a handsome clump of erect, arching, dark green fronds.  Truly a specimen fern. Plant in the shade to part sun.

 

Woodwardia unigemmata Oriental Chain Fern   
Ht 1-2 M.Z8.   A large semi-evergreen fern.  The new fronds emerge a wonderful red-orange and slowly change to a dark leathery green.  Old fronds have small plantlets on the underside of the leaf tip.  Plants can be as large as 4’ tall with 6’ long arching fronds.

 

Woodwardia orientalis Oriental Chain Fern
Ht.30-60cm Z7-8. This is a large evergreen fern (except during harsh winters) with thick leathery fronds. New fronds emerge coppery orange. Older fronds are topped with small plantlets that can be plucked and planted.

 

 

 

Fern References:
Ferns for the American Garden
By John T Mickel ISBN 0-02-584491-1

The Plantfinder’s Guide to Garden Ferns
By. Martin Rickard ISBN 0-88192-476-8

Encyclopaedia of Ferns
By David l. Jones ISBN 0-88192-054-1