These magnificent Tree Ferns come from Australia and New Zealand undoubtedly have the elegance that makes it a must for the exotic garden or in fact any garden.
Position: Ferns like the shade or semi-shade and shelter from the wind.
Watering: Tree ferns like their trunks to be completely soaked as well as the crown at least twice a week in the warmer months. If left outside no supplementary watering is needed over the colder months.
Winter Protection: The hardiest ferns just need some straw in the crown of the trunk this will keep heavy frosts off the fronds. The trunks of the half-hardy ferns should be wrapped in the winter so should smaller specimens of hardy tree ferns.
Hardy Tree Ferns
Dicksonia Antarctica Trunk 20’x30”, Wet/Dry
The King of the Fern world. This truly majestic and spectacular tree fern has a stout, erect, woody trunk with lance-shaped bipinnate pinnatifid large fronds. Price: £40.00 per foot Smaller plants with no trunk from £7.50
Dicksonia fibrosa
This is New Zealand answer to the D. Antarctica called locally the’Punga’. The fronds are of a darker green, lance-shaped, bipinnate-pinnatifid. Price £40.00 per foot. Smaller plants with no trunk from £7.50.
Dicksonia squarrosa
The ‘Wheki’ tree fern from New Zealand is a slender stem fern that produces suckers around the base. The fronds are lance-shaped, bipinnate-pinnatifid with abundant dark brown hairs on the dark brown stripe and rachis. Less hardy then D. Antarctica and fibrosa, ideal for a sheltered garden or conservatory. Price: £17.50 trunk forming.
Cyathea Australia
This is an exciting new addition to Crawford Hardy Ferns, a very unusual and rare tree fern. This Tree Fern grows at higher altitudes and in more exposed sites so therefore should be at least as hardy as Dicksonia Antarctica Prices: Small pots - £7.50 (no trunk) , 1 ft - £52.50, 2ft - £105, 3ft - £157.50, 5ft - £250
For Cyathea Medullaris & Cyathea Smithii please enquire about availability limited stock