Plant name - Dryopteris filix-mas

Plant size - Height to 1.5m, spread to 1m

Hardiness - Fully Hardy down to -20c

Ideal for - Sheltered flower beds and pots 

Position - Full to part shade 

Flowering -  Grown for foliage 

Pot Size - 17cm 

Description -  A native, male fern found naturally in moist woodlands around the UK. This large, deciduous fern has feathery, green fronds which form a distinctive, shuttlecock shape and turn coppery in autumn. It makes a fine companion for shade-loving woodland plants, especially other ferns, and when its leaves die back, the space can be filled with early flowering spring bulbs such as snowdrops.

This fern is deciduous so all its fronds will die back in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again each spring.