Japanese Painted Fern
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.
Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (F-0001)
Each 12.75
In stunning painterly strokes, olive-greens, blues and metallic silvers are splashed across the elegant tapered fronds. garnet-colored midribs etch a fervid counterpoint. Renown for its unwavering hardiness, the ever popular japanese painted fern slowly spreads to form a low growing, textural clump that gracefully weeps, softening the edges along paths, containers or the rockery and electrifying the shadows with Carex ‘Island Brocade’, Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ and Pulmonaria longifolia ssp. cevennensis.
Tolerant of some drought once established, this refined deciduous fern fancies shade, moisture and well draining, humus-rich soil.
Size: 18" high x 2' 0" wide.
Zone 3/4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Athyrium filix-femina ‘Lady in Red’
- Athyrium filix-femina ‘Victoriae’
- Athyrium ‘Ghost’
- Athyrium niponicum ‘Metallicum’
- 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
