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Maidenhair fern, Adiantum pedatum
 
A great plant for the shade, even the north side of your house. Maidenhair fern is a most beautiful, elegant, small fern. It looks delicate, it looks airy, it's graceful but it is hardy, low maintenance and easy to grow in the woodand garden. It reaches a spread of 25 cm to 90 cm and in ideal conditions can spread slowly by rhizomes and form colonies.
 
Growing conditions:
It grows in rich woodlands that can be slightly damp and in full or dappled shade. Maidenhair fern doesn't tolerate afternoon and mid-day sun.  It can grow in rich, average to moist, cool, well-drained garden soils that must not dry out.

Maidenhair Fern

C$12.50Price
Quantity
  • 30 - 60 cm   easy to grow
    dappled - deep shade   low height
    sand, loam, clay   deer resistant
    medium to moist   colony forming

     

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    Garden symphony:

    Wild ginger, bloodroot, white trillium, wild blue phlox, foam flower, Virginia waterleaf, large-flowered bellwort, white snakeroot, zigzag goldenrod.

     

     

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