Asplenium

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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

Asplenium scolopendrium ‘Angustifolium’ Evergreen Dry/Wet, Height 12-18”

            Thin long fronds with with crimped edges - £3.00 7cm & £5.50 2 litre pots

Asplenium scolopendrium (Crispum group) Evergreen Dry/Wet Height 15-24"

The smooth frond margins are beautiful crisped like a Elizabethan ruff. This fern is sterile and consequently can only reproduced by vegetative means.- £3.50 7 cm & £6.50 2 litre pots

Asplenium scolopendrium (cristatum group) Evergreen Dry/Wet Height 15-24”

Fronds divided one third of the way along rachis, then  redivides ending with a crested tip - £3.00 7 cm & £5.50 2 litre pots

Asplenium scolopendrium muricatum Evergreen dry/Wet, Height 12-18”

            Narrow fronds have a roughened surface with raised sharply ridged wrinkles - £3.00 7 cm & £5.50 2 litre pots

Asplenium bulbiferum (hen and chicken fern) [NOT HARDY] Height 2-3 FT

Soft attractive ‘mother fern’, Relatively cold hardy in a protected garden. Develops plantlets from mature fronds.- £5.00 10 cm  & £12.50 4 litre pots