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Botanical/Common Image Description Price
Athyrium augustum forma rubellum 'Lady in Red'

Lady in Red

 Lady in Red' New, exciting vibrant burgundy color runs through the stem creating sharp contrast with the green fronds. This deciduous fern is fantastic in any shade garden. Do not fertilize with nitrogen for brightest color. Plants must undergo a winter dormancy for bright color and full color doesn't occur until 2nd dormancy and maturity. The Athyrium as a group are very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-013
Zone: 3-8     Height: 30-36''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$7.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina

Lady Fern, Uncrested

 Lovely bright yellow green fern with wide, deep cut leaves which tapered at both ends. This large fern has multiple fronds growing from a central clump. Fronds are deciduous. Anything from full sun to deep shade and moist soil but is heat and humidity tolerant. A real favorite.
Stock #: 411-005
Zone: 5-9     Height: 2-5'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant Native Americans 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Dre's Dagger'

Lady Fern, Crested Cruciate

 Sprung from the hands of Brutus, this artistic fern comes from breeder Angelo Randaci. The thin, deep green fronds are unusually crisscrossed and coming to a narrow point, that terminates with a small crest. For shade or morning sun in rich soils but is very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-015
Zone: 4-9     Height: 18''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$10.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Frizelliae'

Tatting Fern

 One of the most unique ferns available and one of my personal favorites. The unusual fronds resemble the loops and knots of tatting lace. Looks somewhat like a string of beads. Easy to grow and a real charmer. Beautiful in the garden and a wondrous jewel in a tabletop tray garden as well.
Stock #: 411-012
Zone: 3-8     Height: 1'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissima'

Lady Fern, Dwarf

 Another dainty charmer with clumps of soft light green fronds. Lends a nice texture to containers and shaded niches in the garden border.
Stock #: 411-019
Zone: 4-9     Height: 30''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Vernoniae Cristatum'

Lady Fern, Miss Vernon's Crested

 A gorgeous crested form of the European lady fern. Broadly triangular fronds are crisped and crested creating an elegant appearance. The Athyrium as a group are very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-008
Zone: 5-9     Height: 2-3'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$7.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Victoriae'

Lady Victoria Fern

 Victorian Selection' or the 'Criss Cross Selection'. A most unusual fern whose pinnae crisscross to form x's and with crested leaflet tips. Only tissue culture can preserve this unusual growth pattern. It's called the 'Queen of Green'.
Stock #: 411-009
Zone: 4-9     Height: 18-24''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium niponicum 'Ghost'

Ghost Fern

 Silvery white fronds that change to green. This is a vigorous, deciduous upright fern whose growth habit offers design value with its informal but elegant appearance. Its silvery-chalky-gray foliage pulls light into shady woodland gardens and really draws in the eye of visitors.
Stock #: 411-004
Zone: 3-9     Height: 18-24''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium niponicum var. 'Pictum'

Japanese Painted Fern

 PPA plant of the year 2004 and a 'Great Plant Pick'. The wide range of colors in this fern make it a garden designer's dream. Very attractive foliage that has everything from silver to gray, burgundy to red, greens, purples and even black variegation while the stems are maroon. Colors get showier with each year of maturity and would brighten up any shady corner. Follow that up with no pest or disease problems, heat and humidity tolerant, and how can you live without it?
Stock #: 411-001
Zone: 5-8     Height: 12-20''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant Great-Plant-Pick 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Pewter Lace'

Painted Fern

 Silversmith Paul Revere would have succumbed to the charms of this designer color in Japanese Painted Ferns. With arresting metallic pewter foliage. Stunning! The Athyrium as a group are very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-016
Zone: 4-9     Height: 12-15''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$9.99 each

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Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Regal Red'

Painted Fern

 Handsome and ruffled, this high-color selection is stunning! The dark interior of the frond is contrasted by bright silver edges. The pinnules twist a little giving the frond a 'fluffed-up' look. The Athyrium as a group are very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-024
Zone: 4-9     Height: 8-20''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum-Applecourt'

Applecourt Crested Japanese Painted Fern

 All of the wonderful, colorful frond characteristics of Japanese Painted fern but with added heavy cresting of each frond to create a fuller delicate appearance. Deciduous with a spreading habit. Very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-011
Zone: 3-9     Height: 1-2'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$9.99 each

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Athyrium otophorum

Auriculate Lady Fern

 This is another colorful delight with light green fronds with a dark wine hue spreading onto the foliage. New growth is the color of Key lime pie and displays well when surrounded with leafy dark greens. A dramatic addition to your garden, this is a fern with a soft, arching graceful look. Deciduous.
Stock #: 411-003
Zone: 5-9     Height: 2'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant Great-Plant-Pick 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium thelypteroides

Silvery Spleenwort

 A wonderful, deciduous, easy-to-grow native American that prefers rich, moist woodland soils. The Athyrium as a group are very heat and humidity tolerant. Young fronds are yellow-green in color. Syn: Deparia acrostichoides or Silver Glade Fern
Stock #: 411-018
Zone: 4-9     Height: 2'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$6.99 each

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Athyrium 'Wildwood Twist'

Painted Fern

 An unusual and silvered hybrid fern, painted in smoky gray and green. Some say there is a hint of gold in the foliage! A unique and artful addition to the garden.
Stock #: 411-020
Zone: 4-9     Height: 18''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$8.99 each

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Athyrium x 'Branford Beauty'

Lady Fern, Branford Beauty

 A fascinating hybrid of Japanese Painted Fern, this beauty sports reddish stems and silvery-gray flecked leaves. Extremely vigorous, upright fern and is very heat and humidity tolerant.
Stock #: 411-010
Zone: 5-9     Height: 2'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		$7.99 each

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Athyrium filix-femina 'Encourage'

Lady Fern, Crested

 After 8 years of fern crosses, fern breeders Angelo and Carol Randaci selected a crested and tasseled form of this Athyrium with great vigor. They were Encourage’d by the results and named their fern thusly. Apple-green coloration. Charming petticoats line the fronds.
Stock #: 411-014
Zone: 4-9     Height: 15''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium filix-femina 'Plumosum Axminster' progeny

Lady Fern, Golden Plumose

 Lacy, frilly leaflets flutter about on this springtime light apple-green color note for the fern grotto. This illuminating Judith Jones beauty is a natural in the moist or woodland garden too.
Stock #: 411-017
Zone: 4-9     Height: 30''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium n. var. pictum ‘Burgundy Lace’

Painted Fern

 A Japanese Painted fern with wonderful deep burgundy leaves, especially in spring, which are also well-silvered. This plant likes humidity, so keep evenly moist. Drought can force plants into dormancy and it will not tolerate full sun.
Stock #: 411-022
Zone: 4-9     Height: 12-15''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium n. var. pictum 'Ursula's Red'

Painted Fern

 Deciduous. This fern heralds its emergence in spring with broad silver leaves traced and flushed with wine red. Fabulous colorful addition to the shade garden.
Stock #: 411-006
Zone: 4-9     Height: 16''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium niponicum 'Silver Falls'

Painted Fern

 The brightest painted fern there is! A stunning fern with lustrous silvery fronds that shimmer with contrasting red veins. Named after a famous Oregon waterfall. Unlike any other Painted Fern, this one intensifies its silvering as the season progresses! Beautiful silver tinted foliage. Not as vigorous and slow to grow but very unique.
Stock #: 411-002
Zone: 5-9     Height: 12-15''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium 'Ocean's Fury'

Crested Painted Fern

 Furiously Fabulous! This hybrid fern has an upright habit, with leaves that are crested and lightly silvered. A wonderful addition to the shade or woodland garden.
Stock #: 411-023
Zone: 5-9     Height: 3'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium otophorum 'Okanum'

Eared Lady Fern

 This is another colorful delight with light green fronds with a dark wine hue spreading onto the foliage. New growth is the color of Key lime pie and displays well when surrounded with leafy dark greens. A dramatic addition to your garden, this is a fern with a soft, arching graceful look. Deciduous.
Stock #: 411-021
Zone: 5-9     Height: 2'     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant Great-Plant-Pick 		Reference Library Listing Only
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Athyrium pycnocarpon

Narrow-leaved Spleenwort

 Deciduous. Circular clusters of 5-6 arching, slender fronds, only 6'' wide but 36'' tall, of undivided lance-shaped leaflets. The fronds resemble Christmas and sword ferns in shape. A bright, light green in spring, deep green in summer and russet in early autumn. Use as a spreading ground cover in a very moist, shady spot.
Stock #: 411-007
Zone: 4-8     Height: 36''     Part-Shade Full-Shade Cut-Flower Deer-Resistant 		Reference Library Listing Only
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