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Clockwise from top: Japanese Painter Athyrium, Maidenhair Fern, Burgundy Lace Athyrium. |
FERNS
Nothing quite gives a landscape a lush, almost exotic feel like ferns. With ferns, it's all about foliage; they have no flowers. Ferns work well in planting
combinations because their leaf texture is unique, serving as a foil for the texture of other plants.
To the novice gardener, one fern can look pretty much like another – lacy and green. Experienced gardeners, however, see the subtle
differences and are intrigued by the variation. Ferns may be coarse or delicate, succulent or filmy, crown forming or creeping, shade-loving or
sun tolerant, small and moss-sized or upright and climbing. Some ferns are evergreen and some are deciduous, but every spring each sends out a fresh batch
of fiddleheads (named for their likeness to the curved scrolls at the tops of violin necks) which unfurl from a tight coil of delicate foliage. And many varieties
continue to pop with fall color that ranges from silvery to burgundy and copper.
The Nursery at Reds features the following varieties of ferns:
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Adiantum pedatum Maidenhair Athyrium
Branford Beauty Dryopteris
Autumn Matteuccia European Ostrich Osmunda Cinnamon Polystichum Christmas |
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