These colorful ferns give color and texture to the shady garden. Blending them with Hosta and other shade perennials adds interest to any garden.
Athyrium ‘Branford Beauty’; Branford Beauty Fern
#8515
A hybrid of Lady fern and Japanese Painted Fern. It combines the colored fronds, spreading habit and informal texture of the Japanese Painted Fern with the lighter color and larger size of Lady Fern. As a hybrid it is not quite like either parent, but it is distinctive enough to be included anywhere a Lady Fern or a Japanese Painted Fern is used. Branford Beauty and it’s sister Brandford Rambler were found in a garden in Branford, CT.
Branford Rambler is almost the opposite of Branford Beauty, but the same as well. Darker, spreading faster, and shorter than Branford Beauty, Branford Rambler has green fronds and purple stipes making it especially effective as a groundcover or under planting.
Price: $6.50
Athyrium ‘Ghost’ ; Ghost Fern
(#8522
A sterile hybrid that appeared as a sporeling in a bed of Lady Ferns and Japanese Painted Ferns. Since it is sterile it must be cloned. A strong tall growing fern, which brings a unique ghostly gray-green accent color to the garden. It is equally effective as a single specimen, massed as a ground cover in combination with adjacent plantings of dark foliages in a woodland setting.
Price: $6.50
Athyrium angustum forma rubellum 'Lady in Red'
#8530
Lady In Red™ is an exciting new introduction of Casa Flora from a exceptional plant with vibrant burgundy stipe & rachis (stalk of frond), which creates a sharp contrast with its green fronds. Requirements to obtain the intense red color: Withhold nitrogen as it stimulates the production of green chlorophyll, masking the red color; and full color does not occur until the second dormancy and maturity in the garden.
Price: $6.50
Athyrium niponicum var. Pictum Japanese Painted Fern
#8539
Adapts to growing conditions in most of the country. Spore produced Painted ferns are highly variable in color. ‘These ferns are cloned from nicely colored selection which will give uniform color. Normally they are more colorful in early spring as they each come out after winter dormancy in spring with cool nights in medium light. This superb fern is easily grown in loose humsy moist soil.
Price: $6.50
Athyrium niponicum var. Pictum ‘Regal Red’ Japanese Painted Fern
#8542
The 'Regal red' variation of the Japanese Painted fern is a highly colored form. It must be cloned by tissue culture to produce its outstanding color . Very attractive in the perennial garden.
Price: $6.95
Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' Autumn Fern
#8820
This is a new colorful and brilliant form of the native Autumn Fern. The new leaves appear colorful with the "autumn" color in the spring, but turn to a beautiful glossy green as they mature in the summer. This unique color pattern makes a nice show in the shady garden. Hardiness is zones 5 -8.
Price: $6.50
Osmunda regalis 'Purpurascence' Purple stem Royal Fern
#8890
All the characteristics of the native Royal Fern with the added feature of deep purple stems and fiddleheads in the spring. The purple color turns to gold in the fall.
