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Fern Plants
Fern plants are the perfect woodland garden plants. Growing ferns as shade plants in shaded areas will provide height, texture, color and motion. Christmas Ferns and Autumn Brilliance Ferns are evergreen ferns, while Ostrich Fern is the only fern with edible fiddleheads. Maidenhair fern, lady fern and cinnamon fern are a few of the more interesting fern plants Hostas, heucheras, hydrangeas, and tiarellas make excellent companion plants for fern plant gardens. This selection of container and bare root ferns are hardy plants and will grow in most of the continental U.S. Ferns are one of the most low maintenance shade loving plants.
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Planting and caring for bare root ferns, evergreen ferns and potted ferns: Fern plants grow mostly in lightly shaded to fully shaded areas. They prefer moist, rich humus soil with a slightly acid pH (5.3 to 5.5 pH range). Sphagnum peat moss is good to add to the soil for holding moisture and will add some acid to the soil as it decomposes. The hole should not only be large enough to hold the tuber, but allowing at least an inch or two from the top of the tuber to the top of the hole. The smaller ferns, such as Maidenhair, can be planted about 18 to 24 inches apart. Ostrich, Christmas and Royal Ferns grow larger and should be planted no closer than 24 inches apart.
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