Ferns
Feathery and even leathery, our shade loving woodland stalwarts will provide you with a versatile palette of plants that are perfect as delicate ground cover or dramatic elegant structural canopies. There is nothing quite so enchanting as the sight of new unfurling fronds or more impressive than an established geometric fan. Of all our ferns, Dicksonia antarctica instantly delivers the greatest drama and is the most amazing thing to view from above. We like to have a range of heights and characterful trunks in our greenhouse (they’re wonderfully fluffy and woody), and they make for excellent courtyard planting, too. It’s taken us 30 years to bring together our collection of evergreen and deciduous ferns, many of which we grow ourselves, and there is much to inspire and feed your pteridomania.
Showing 1–8 of 12 results
-
Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart's Tongue Fern)
View this plantA familiar evergreen British native with bright green entire fronds to 2 ft. OK on acid soil, but loves very alkaline soil (chalk). Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
-
Blechnum chilense (Seersucker Fern)
View this plantEvergreen drifts of big slightly crinkly fronds. Another plant that taxes one’s descriptive powers. An exotic and unusual fern from Chile. Can grow to 5ft in ideal conditions. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
-
Blechnum spicant (Deer Fern)
View this plantA familiar evergreen British native fern with pinnate fronds to 2 ft long. Lime hater. Please contact us for other stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
-
Dicksonia antarctica (Tree Fern)
View this plantHuge and beautiful tree ferns from Down Under. They need space, not too shady and a reasonably mild garden sheltered from strong winds. Everyone loves tree ferns. Please contact us for other stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Red
-
Dryopteris erythrosora (Autumn Fern)
View this plantDeciduous fern with coppery new fronds in spring and summer – all turning green later. Can grow to 3ft by 3ft. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
-
Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern)
View this plantImpressive 4ft deciduous fern for sun or shade. Very distinctive with its brown spore bearing new fronds. Royal? No idea. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green
-
Pellaea rotundifolia (Button Fern)
View this plantA delicate little evergreen fern. A relatively new introduction from New Zealand proving remarkably frost hardy. Quite low growing with fronds up to 18″. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes
Hardiness level Amber
-
Polystichum munitum (Western Sword Fern)
View this plantEvergreen fern forming rosettes of fronds about 3ft x 3ft or more, where plenty of moisture is available. From the Pacific north-west. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.
Hardiness level Green