HARDY FERNS

Himalayan Maidenhair Fern

This delicate perennial forms dense clumps of semi-evergreen, fine-textured, triangular green fronds with fan-shaped leaflets on blackish stems, adding year-round greenery in milder climates.

Height: 6 to 12 inches tall
Width: Spreads slowly via rhizomes to form clumps
Foliage Color: Bright green
Light Requirements: Part shade to full shade
Water Requirements: High

Hart’s Tongue Fern

This evergreen fern has narrow, undivided, lance-shaped fronds with a smooth, glossy texture and rich green color, maintaining its vibrancy year-round and adding interest to shaded gardens and naturalistic plantings.

Height: 12 to 24 inches
Width: 12 to 24 inches
Foliage color: Glossy dark green, evergreen
Light requirements: Partial shade to full shade
Water requirements: Average

Japanese Painted Fern

This fern features finely divided fronds edged in silvery green with a rich burgundy-red midrib that deepens through the season, creating a striking contrast and adding vibrant color to shaded gardens.

Height: 12 to 18 inches tall
Width: 18 to 24 inches wide
Foliage color: Silvery-green with maroon stems and veins
Light requirements: Partial to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate to high

Alpine Water Fern

This delicate fern features lush, feathery fronds that may develop a rusty bronze or reddish hue in colder months, adding textured ground cover and subtle warmth to shaded garden areas.

Height: 12 to 24 inches
Width: 12 to 18 inches
Foliage color: Dark green
Light requirements: Part shade to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Deer Fern

This evergreen fern has dark green, leathery sterile fronds forming a low rosette, while upright, slender fertile fronds add texture and contrast, creating year-round visual interest in shaded landscapes.

Height: 12 to 24 inches
Width: 12 to 24 inches
Foliage color: Glossy dark green, evergreen
Light requirements: Part shade to full shade
Water requirements: Medium

Fortune’s Holly Fern

With its holly-like, deeply lobed, glossy green fronds, this evergreen fern develops an upright, arching habit that adds rich texture and year-round vibrancy to shaded gardens and containers.

Height: 1 to 2 feet tall
Width: 1 to 2 feet wide
Foliage color: Glossy, dark green
Light requirements: Partial to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Gold-scaled Male Fern

This robust evergreen fern features broad, finely divided, glossy green fronds with a gracefully arching habit, adding year-round structure to shaded gardens and naturalistic landscapes.

Height: 24 to 48 inches
Width: 24 to 36 inches
Foliage color: Glossy, dark green, upright fronds
Light requirements: Partial shade to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Weeping Broad Buckler Fern

This fern features gracefully arching, deep green fronds with a unique recurved shape, forming a vase-like habit that adds soft texture and year-round visual interest to shaded gardens.

Height: 18 to 24 inches tall
Width: 18 to 24 inches wide
Foliage color: Glossy green fronds with recurved tips
Light requirements: Partial to full shade
Water requirements: Moist, well-drained soil

Autumn Fern

This semi-evergreen fern features new fronds in coppery pink to bronze that mature to glossy deep green, adding seasonal color and rich texture to shaded gardens and borders.

Height: 18 to 30 inches
Width: 18 to 30 inches
Foliage color: Copper-red, maturing to glossy deep green
Light requirements: Part shade to full shade
Water requirements: Medium

Buckler Fern

This hardy, semi-evergreen fern features finely divided, leathery green fronds with a ruffled texture, forming a bold, vase-shaped structure that adds year-round depth and elegance to shaded gardens.

Height: 24 to 48 inches
Width: 24 to 36 inches
Foliage color: Dark green, ruffled and arching fronds
Light requirements: Partial shade to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Western Sword Fern

With bold, arching fronds and dense, deep green leaflets, this resilient fern provides textured greenery year-round, making it an ideal addition to shaded gardens and forested landscapes.

Height: 2 to 4 feet tall
Width: 3 to 4 feet wide
Foliage color: Dark green, leathery fronds
Light requirements: Partial shade to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Japanese Tassel Fern

With finely cut, dark green, glossy fronds forming a dense, rounded clump, this evergreen fern adds year-round greenery and ornamental value to shaded gardens, borders, or ground cover.

Height: 12 to 24 inches
Width: 12 to 24 inches
Foliage Color: Dark green and glossy
Light Requirements: Partial to full shade
Water Requirements: Regular

Alaskan Fern

This elegant evergreen fern features finely textured, feathery, lance-shaped fronds that start light green and mature to deep green, offering lush, year-round interest in shaded woodland gardens.

Height: 24 to 36 inches
Width: 24 to 36 inches
Foliage color: Soft-textured, glossy dark green, evergreen
Light requirements: Part shade to full shade
Water requirements: Average

Pulcherrimum Bevis Soft Field Fern

This evergreen fern features soft, finely divided, rich green fronds with a subtle sheen, creating a lush, feathery texture and year-round visual interest in shaded garden areas.

Height: 24 to 36 inches
Width: 24 to 36 inches
Foliage color: Deep green, finely textured and lacy
Light requirements: Partial to full shade
Water requirements: Moderate

Dyce’s Holly Fern

This evergreen fern features glossy, dark green, bipinnate, lance-shaped fronds that arch gracefully, providing lush, symmetrical foliage with year-round interest and texture in shaded garden areas.

Height: 18 to 36 inches
Width: 24 to 48 inches
Foliage color: Glossy dark green, evergreen
Light requirements: Partial shade to full shade
Water requirements: Medium