Athyrium
Lady Fern
Our highly ornamental offerings of this genus fashion remarkable fronds sprouting from a deciduous clump that relishes shady damp recesses. Old leaves can be left standing throughout the winter and cut back in the spring, just after the new ones burst forth.
Hailing from eastern Asia, this ultra-refined deciduous fern hosts a posh arching rossette of lance-shaped bipinnate steel-gray leaves with green highlights, purplish red stems plus maroon-hued veins. Easy-care Metallicum turns more green when the weather warms, wards off bunnies as well as deer and asserts glittering metallic panache to shady borders and courtyards, shrub understory, woodlands and waters edge. A sheltered, moist humus-rich alcove that is fertile and well-drained guarantees a happy colony.
Size: 15" – 2' 0" high x 2' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Athyrium filix-femina ‘Lady in Red’
- Athyrium filix-femina ‘Victoriae’
- Athyrium ‘Ghost’
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Apple Court’
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Burgundy Lace’
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Red Beauty’
- Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Regal Red’
- Athyrium otophorum
