Product Overview
Hardiness zones 3-8
Most ferns limit their color to green but not so the painted fern which subtly blends wine-red and silvery-green on its gracefully tapering fronds. This award-winning perennial brings unmatched artistic color and texture to the deepest, most shaded corners of your landscape. Known botanically as Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum', the Japanese Painted Fern is celebrated for its breathtaking, arching fronds that blend soft silvery-gray, dusty blue-green, and deep burgundy-purple along contrasting wine-red stems. This slow-spreading, low-maintenance plant grows in neat, clump-forming mounds that reach 12 to 18 inches tall, making it an ideal choice for woodland borders, shaded rock gardens, or accent containers where its metallic sheen can brighten dim spaces. Exceptionally resilient and ultra-cold hardy down to a zone 3. This deciduous fern truly thrives in full shade to partial shade and requires consistently moist, humus-rich, well-draining soil to showcase its most vibrant, variegated colors from spring until the first autumn frost.
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