Autumn Fern Plants for Outdoor, Live Fern Potting Soil, Perennial Shade Plants

Ferns are a must for any shade garden, as they provide cool, shady spots with their elegant, tropical, and woodsy appearance. The autumn fern, also known as the Japanese shield fern, is a beautiful evergreen or semi-evergreen choice for a shady destination, such as a woodland garden or a north-side foundation bed. This vase-shaped fern can be mixed with broad or round-leaf shrubs and rocks to create a wonderful shade oasis of color and texture contrast.

The glossy fronds of the autumn fern emerge copper-red in spring, maturing to deep green. The fuzzy red-brown sori (spores) on the underside of the fronds in fall or winter add to the visual drama. With its low-growing style, the autumn fern can be used for ground-cover purposes, particularly to bring seasonal foliar color to spots in need. The plant spreads slowly over time by rhizomes.

Gardeners can consider the autumn fern one of the best perennial plants for shade, using it as an understory around a shade tree or to liven up a rock garden or zen garden. This wood fern is the perfect outdoor plant for those who love low-light houseplants and other fern houseplant varieties, such as the Boston fern, staghorn fern, asparagus fern, maidenhair fern, bird's nest fern, types of tree fern, or air fern.

Shade-loving plants like ferns are the best way to bring life to any space, and the autumn fern is resistant to deer, rabbits, and heavy shade. It grows to 18 to 30 inches in height and width, appreciating regular watering and thriving in average to rich, well-drained, evenly moist soil, although it is regarded by some as drought-tolerant once established. The autumn fern prefers filtered light and is hardy to Zone 7/0 Degree F.

Autumn fern is one of many popular landscaping plants that gardeners grow as lawn edging along a garden pathway, ground cover, a landscape border, or in a hanger planter and plant pots. These real ferns ship in a 1-gallon nursery pot, allowing gardeners to bask in the foliage of these perennial shade plants and enjoy fast-growing plants instead of buying seeds for planting flowers.

Gardeners can indulge in real plants, from bushes and shrubs to flowering plants and more perennial plants ready to plant upon arrival, and grow these perennial ferns with ground cover plants, spring bulbs, and evergreen shrubs for landscaping in garden shade. They can plant them near a patio gazebo with outdoor garden decor, decorative hedge wall, as landscape edging, or along an outdoor privacy wall.

Gardeners can either adorn their own yards with a decorative garden edging border of ferns or give some shade-loving plants as gardening gifts for plant lovers. Hardiness Zone 7 helps lush ferns and other outdoor plants live year-round in garden borders and edging.

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