Adiantum pedatum
Description and Cultural Information:
Common Maidenhair Fern 12 - 26". Maidenhair ferns are pretty, dainty, and delicate. They have wiry, purple-brown petioles and feathery, circular fronds that grow outward in a flat, fan-like position. Plants are slow spreading and non-invasive.
How to Grow: Maidenhair ferns remain attractive from spring to fall when planted in humus-rich, loose, well-drained soil that is kept moist at all times. Give them a cool site in part to full shade. Plants can be propagated by dividing the creeping rhizomes in early spring, just as they emerge. Rhizomes should be planted just below the surface.
Landscape uses: Maidenhair ferns add a delicate touch to the shade garden. Plant them with hostas, astilbes, fringed bleeding hearts, lungworts (Pulmonaria), toad lilies (Tricyrtis), and woodland wildflowers.
Shipping Size: #1's, 3" tubor
