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Maidenhair fern, Adiantum pedatum
A great plant for the shade, even on the north side of your house. Maidenhair fern is a beautiful, elegant, small fern. It looks delicate and airy, is graceful but hardy, low- maintenance, and easy to grow in the woodland garden. It reaches a spread of 25 cm to 90 cm and, in ideal conditions, can slowly spread by rhizomes to form colonies.
Growing conditions:
It grows in rich woodlands that can be slightly damp and in full or dappled shade. Maidenhair fern doesn't tolerate mid-day or afternoon sun. It can grow in rich, average to moist, cool, well-drained garden soils that must not dry out.
Maidenhair Fern - Adiantum pedatum
30 - 60 cm easy to grow dappled - deep shade low height sand, loam, clay deer resistant medium to moist colony forming .
Garden symphony:
Wild ginger, bloodroot, white trillium, wild blue phlox, foam flower, Virginia waterleaf, large-flowered bellwort, white snakeroot, zigzag goldenrod.