Ferns
Japanese Painted Fern
The \'Japanese Painted Fern\'™, Athyrium niponicum \'Pictum\', is a low maintance, deciduous fern with soft grayish-green and silvery dark maroon foliage. Being the Perennial of the Year for 2004, one can see why.
Brilliance Fern
The Brilliance Fern, \'Dryopteris \'Brilliance\', is a new colorful and more brilliant form of the Autumn Fern. The young fronds of this cultivars are showy and orange. The fronds hold their glossy green sheen at maturity.
Ghost Fern
The Ghost Fern, \'Athyrium niponicum var. pictum and Athyrium filix-feminais\', is a deciduous hybrid fern. The characteristic that is most noteable is it\'s upright silvery foliage.
Red Beauty Fern
The Red Beauty Fern, Athyrium \'Red Beauty\', is a very vigorous and attractive relative to the Japanese Painted Fern. The Red Beauty Fern is a quick-growing plant for any partly to fully shaded garden location.
Wildwood Twist Fern
The Wildwood Twist Fern, \'Athyrium \'Wildwood Twist\', is a hybrid of the Japanese Painted Fern. It is a deciduous fern which typically grows to 18\" tall and features slowly spreading clumps of triangular, smoky gray and green fronds.
Christmas Fern
The Christmas Fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, occurs in both dry and moist wooded slopes, moist banks and ravines. It typically grows in a fountain-like clump to 2\' tall and features leathery, lance-shaped, evergreen (green at Christmas time as the common name suggests) fronds.
Cinnamon Fern
The Cinnamon Fern, Osmunda cinnamonea, occurs in moist, boggy ground along streams and on shaded ledges and grows in clumps to 2\'-3\' tall, but with constant moisture can reach 5\' in height. When new fronds appear, they have a cinnamon color.
Ebony Spleenwort Fern
Ebony Spleenwort Fern, Asplenium platyneuron, is an evergreen fern which typically grows to 15\" tall and occurs on rocky wooded ledges, rocky slopes and mossy banks. The fronds are arching, pinnate, somewhat glossy and are dark green and sterile.
Hayscented Fern
The Hayscented Fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, is very common. It can be identified by its lacy, light-green fronds that feel very slightly sticky to the touch. It often grows in large colonies and appears to be forming a carpet.
Southern Lady Fern
The Lady fern or Red Stem fern has a feathery textured frond with a red stem. It is a slow spreading fern, which will make a nice mass in a few years. The Southern Lady fern thrives in the garden, given any reasonably good soil and will make a dense stand over time.