Ivydene Gardens Plants:
Deciduous and Evergreen Fern List

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The Fern Gallery shows colour photographs of some of the following ferns.

Evergreen Fern

Plant Name

Height x Spread in feet. 300mm = 1 foot
Plants below 2 feet in Height

 

Evergreen - Of plants that retain their foliage for more than one growing season; semi-evergreen plants retain only a small proportion of their leaves for more than one season.

Adiantum venustum
(Himalayan Maidenhair Fern)
Blechnum penna-marina
Blechnum spicant (Hard Fern)
Polypodium vulgare
Polypodium vulgare
'Cornubiense'
 

0.5 x indefinite
.
0.5 x indefinite
1 x 2
1 x indefinite
1.2 x indefinite
 

 

Evergreen Fern

Plant Name

Height x Spread in feet.
Plants between 2 and 6 feet in Height

 

 

Asplenium scolopendrium
(Hart's Tongue Fern)
Dryopteris affinis
Polystichum aculeatum
Polystichum munitum
Polystichum setiferum
 

2 x 2
.
3 x 3
2 x 3
3 x 4
4 x 3
 

 

 

 

 

 

Deciduous Fern

Plant Name

Height x Spread in feet. 300mm = 1 foot
Plants below 2 feet in Height

 

Deciduous - Of plants that shed leaves at the end of the growing season and renew them at the beginning of the next: semi-deciduous plants lose only some of their leaves at the end of the growing season.

Adiantum pedatum
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Gymnocarpium robertianum
 

1 x 1
0.7 x indefinite
1.2 x indefinite
 

 

Deciduous Fern

Plant Name

Height x Spread in feet.
Plants between 2 and 6 feet in Height

 

 

Athyrium filix-femina
(Lady Fern)
Dryopteris carthusiana
Dryopteris erythrosora
Dryopteris filix-mas
Dryopteris wallichiana
Onoclea sensibilis
Osmunda regalis
 

4 x 2
.
2 x 1
2 x 1.25
3 x 3
3 x 2.5
2 x indefinite
6 x 12