Japanese Painted Fern – 1 Gallon Pot

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If you’re looking for a very tough but beautiful long-lived perennial fern to light up shady areas in your landscape, look no further than the Japanese Painted Fern, a masterpiece of a plant and very long-lived. We have specimens in our gardens that are two decades old and still thriving. The Japanese Painted Fern forms beautiful mounds of dramatic arching fronds of a luminescent silvery-grey with darker midribs. A very hardy and showy fern excellent for shady garden beds and container gardens.

Growing 18 to 24 inches tall and wide, the beautiful Japanese Painted Fern is ideal for use as an accent or in small grouping in small garden spaces, and large groupings or absolutely stunning mass plantings in larger landscape borders. Very nice as a solo or combined with other shade-loving plants in combination container gardens. Combines nicely with blue hosta lilies and burgundy to purple leaved Heuchera (Coral Bells). A fine addition to woodland gardens, fern gardens, shade gardens, Asian gardens, rock gardens and around garden ponds. 

The Japanese Painted Fern is easy to grow and low maintenance. It is hardy nearly everywhere in the United States, except for the desert areas and northern areas above Zone 3. Like many other perennial ferns, it prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and part shade to shade. That said, morning sun and evening sun is fine.

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water perennial ferns.