Ferns > Common Polypody
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Grown for its attractively pinnate fronds, it ideal for growing in walls or can be secured into trees where it will give a tropical look to any garden. A terrestrial or epiphytic, evergreen fern with long, leathery dark green foliage. It can also be planted at the front of a shady border where it will spread indefinitely.
Location: full sun or dappled shade.
Soil Type: moderately fertile, humus-rich, gritty or stony, good draining soil.
Growth Rate: average.
Plant Hardiness: fully hardy.
Plant Care: Wrap the rhizomes in moss and tie to a suitable rooting medium and keep damp until established. Shelter from cold, drying winds.
Matches: Asplenium scolopendrium, Dicentra formosa 'Luxuriant', Polygonatum odoratum, Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee', Dryopteris filix-mas, Hosta 'Big Daddy'