| Dry | Shade or semi-shade, well drained but not dust dry |
| Dry/Wet | Moist shade or semi-shade, preferably on the dryish side, a typical shady border often with some trees overhead |
| Wet/Dry | Moist shade or semi-shade preferably on the wet side |
| Wet | Pond sides or boggy areas |
| Deciduous | Usually die back in first frost |
| Evergreen | Green all year but leaves may become untidy by spring |
| Wintergreen | Green in mild winter, fronds easily break in winter winds |
A large genus with many species being hardy in cool temperate areas. They tolerate dry conditions and more sun than most ferns. All polypodiums have creeping rhizome. The polypodiums are evergreen and look stunning in in late summer and autumn when other ferns are fading.
Polypodium interjectum Evergreen, Dry. Height 12-18”
The fronds are pinnatified, ovate lancelote with the basal pinnae bent inwards. This fern is a wonderful garden plant, perfect for rocky lime-rich banks and walls..................................................... - £3.00 9 cm & £5.50 2 litre pots
Polypodium vulgare bifidium cristatum Evergreen, Dry. Height 12-15”
Found in North Lancashire by Thomas Walmsley in 1867.This form has long, narrow pinnate fronds, with bifidate pinnae and terminates into wide crest. As the crest is wider than the rest of the fronds, it is strictly speaking a grandicepes. - £3.00 9 cm & £5.50 2 litre pots
Polypodium vulgare cristatum Evergreen, Dry , Height 12-15”
This form is well crested at the edges and terminates into a crest, but is narrower than the frond itself. - £3.50 9 cm & £6.00 2 litre pots
Polypodium vulgare cornubiense, Evergreen Dry, Height 12-18”
This form produces three different kind of fronds , occasionally one will even find this in a single frond. Some fronds are elongated lance-shape, pinnate, while others are finely cut tripinnate even quadripinnate with narrow segments and coarser type of these.- . £3.50 9 cm & £6.00 2 litre pots
Polypodium glycyrrhiza longicaudatum Evergreen, Dry, Height 12-18”
The Liquorice fern originated from North America and introduced to this country around the first World War. The fronds are leathery, dark green, lance-shaped and deeply cut. The rootstock taste of Liquorice.- £3.50 9 cm & £6.00 2 litre pots