Garden Design With Lady Ferns
Lady ferns are an excellent ground cover and good companions for other shade loving perennials.
Garden design with lady ferns. Garden design containers garden tips plant perfect edibles life style view all 5 ways to design with ferns whether adding color to a serene woodland setting slipped into a vertical wall or trussed up in a japanese mud ball ferns are fun fodder for shady spaces. Filix femina is popular and easy to grow. The path was lined with waist high ferns.
One of the more low maintenance ferns due to its tolerance to sunlight athyrium filix femina has lush bright green foliage with frond stalks in various shades of purple red and green. Following a trail i rounded a bend and dipped down into a little valley with slopes rising on both sides. The small button fern is also a favourite.
Garden design begins with an idea and mine came during a hike in new hampshire s white mountains. See more ideas about ferns garden shade garden garden. Locating lady fern plants may require observation of the spot before planting.
Lady ferns in the garden. In northern areas the plants will tolerate sun if the soil stays moist. Lady ferns in the woodland garden do best in a lightly shaded spot or an area that gets dappled sunlight year round.
Plant them in a loamy soil that is slightly on the acidic side amended with shredded oak leaves or other organic material. This perennial fern grows two to five feet tall depending on the type and while it prefers moist soil it becomes increasingly drought tolerant as. Plant lady ferns in full to part shade and give young plants plenty of room to reach full size which is 24 30 tall and 18 24 wide.
Silver lady ferns are one of the strongest ferns we have in brisbane so is a must as it is easy to look after. The ubiquitous lady fern a.