Fern advice

Hi all,

I have a part of the garden which receives around 1-2 hours of sunlight a day when the sun first appears. It's basically a wall (filled with soil) in the corner of my north facing garden next to my house. When we first bought the house the wall had a hydrangea planted in the top which i transplanted to an area that got more sun. I filled the wall with fox gloves which did well but went crazy tall to reach the sun. I've seen that ferns grow well in shaded areas and i really like the look of them.

Can anyone recommend a decent fern that would suit a well shaded, sheltered spot?

thank you in advance!

 

The Cristste Broad Buckler Fern is a hardy fern and prefers a shady area with slightly acidic soil that is well drained. It is however, very adaptable.

Cyrtomium Falcatum is know as the Holly Fern or Japanese Holly Fern. The unusually shaped evergreen foliage is dark green and glossy. Copes in dry shade.

 

My favourite is Osmunda Regalis (Royal fern). Certainly very hardy and quite imposing. I am not sure how well it would do if the area is very dry tho. Mine grow close to some Rhododendrons in fairly good soil but well drianed so they don't need to grow in a bog either.

 

Hi

if its a dry ish spot anything with "Dry" in the 1st part of the name will suit .

Plus its a good way to remember

Spruce

 

Presume that was a bush Hydrangea? A climbing hydrangea would be happy on a North wall I think - although that's not a fern obviously!

Can you get (i.e. have enough "width") a tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica) in there? You can buy them any height of trunk (depending on how rich you are!!!) so that could add some height to fern planting

 

Hi guys,

thank you all very much for your suggestions. I took notes of the names mentioned above and went to my local dobbies garden centre this morning. I was able to look at the different foliage and what the plants would look like once mature and decided to go for Dryopteris Cycadina. I bought two.

I also managed to check out the tree ferns, i bloody love them! hopefully i'll be able to get my hands on one in the future. They're a bit pricey! the smallest ones were £50.

 

you have a little one for £22.00

and the cloud trees are just something else ...

http://www.seagravenurseries.co.uk/?i=Search Results&s=tree fern

 

Worth checking Seagrave during the Winter, often 50% off at that time ...