Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern)
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The male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) is a beautiful and versatile plant for sun or shade. It is a fine foliage plant for the border, a great container plant, wonderful in the wild garden, and will flourish in those shady spots where little else will grow at all. The lovely pale green fronds come up each spring and form an expanding clump 60 - 120 cm high and wide. It will often self 'seed' from spores.
This plant will grow in sun or shade and in wet or dry conditions. The one in the picture is growing on a piece of old decaying wall (i.e. very dry conditions).
Detailed growing instructions are supplied with the Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern) plants, and can be viewed here.
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Dryopteris filix-mas goes well with:-
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Astilbe chinensis var. pumila
Height: Short, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Moisture Retentive
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Anemone sylvestris (Snowdrop Windflower)
Height: Medium, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Spring
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Digitalis micrantha (Foxglove)
Height: Tall, Width: Narrow
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Aster amellus 'Brilliant' (Michaelmas Daisy)
Height: Tall, Width: Narrow
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Crocosmia Large Red
Height: Tall, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Astrantia major Gill Richardson Group (Masterwort)
Height: Tall, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' (Tick Seed)
Height: Medium, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun
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Aster novi-belgii 'Freda Ballard' (Michaelmas Daisy)
Height: Tall, Width: Medium
Flowering time: Summer
Soil Requirements: Well Drained
Light Requirements: Sun or Partial Shade
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