Ferns > Japanese Painted Fern
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An excellent companion for shade-loving woodland plants it provides long-lasting leaves interest for a shady, sheltered patio or courtyard garden with damp, fertile, neutral to acid soil. This stylish, deciduous fern has deeply cut, greyish-green fronds effused with silver and purple.
Location: full or partial shade.
Soil Type: damp, fertile, neutral to acid soil.
Growth Rate: average.
Plant Hardiness: fully hardy.
Plant Care: Incorporate lots of well-rotted leaf mould, composted pine needles or garden compost into the planting hole. In cold places in late fall protect the crown of the plant with a dry mulch of straw or bracken.
Matches: Asplenium scolopendrium, Dicentra formosa 'Luxuriant', Polygonatum odoratum, Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee', Dryopteris filix-mas, Hosta 'Big Daddy'