Athyrium niponicum 'Pewter Lace'
Brighten Up Your Garden's Shade With The Feather-Look Fronds Of This Hardy Japanese Painted Fern
From Just £12.99
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Key Features
Plant
In Shade
In Shade
Winter
Hardy
Hardy
Easy To Grow
Width: 100cm
Height: 50cm
Height: 50cm
- Something truly different for your fern collection! A stylish fern with silver-washed fronds and burgundy midribs
- Ideal for a fully or partially shaded spot of your garden, growing into a mound of finely divided fronds
- A weed-suppressing groundcover plant, spreading up to 1m wide, and up to 50cm tall
- Fully hardy and deciduous, with fresh growth each spring after winter dormancy, for years of beauty
- Thrives in moist, humus-rich soil in shade - a low-maintenance fern that lifts dull borders
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Description
A hardy Japanese Painted Fern with metallic pewter leaves that look like feathers - and it really does impress in those shaded spots!
Coated from spring to autumn with arching, divided fronds that shimmer with silver, blue-green and burgundy tones. Each frond seems painted by hand, with delicate pink-red midribs that catch the light and add depth wherever it's planted.
It performs brilliantly where your other perennials may fail, such as under trees, beside north-facing walls, or in those damp, tricky corners of the garden. Over time it forms a dense mound of arching fronds about 50cm high and up to a metre wide, for impressive groundcover too.
'Pewter Lace' is fully hardy, so it shrugs off frost with ease. It's deciduous, losing its fronds in winter before bursting into fresh growth each spring. Despite its delicate looks, it's a tough, low-maintenance plant that thrives in moist, humus-rich soil and partial to full shade.
Top Tips
All ferns love a good pampering in the first two years to get them established - lots of water and humous.
Care Information
- Prepare the soil deeply before you plant your fern, removing all weeds and adding plenty of well-rotted organic matter such as leaves mold or composted bark.
- Ferns need both moisture and good drainage, so a good, rich mulch helps considerably.
- Plant your fern shallowly, with the crown flush with the surrounding soil and keep garden debris away from the base.
- In spring, apply a new layer of mulch for the new growing year.
Delivery Information
Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.
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