Ferns

Christmas Fern has green, shiny foliage.  Young fiddleheads in spring are silvery and scaled.  Polystichum acrostichoides is evergreen and looks like a Boston Fern. It will not spread or naturalize, but in time the clumps will increase in size.  Songbirds will use parts and scale-like hairs in nest construction. Christmas Fern hugs the ground in winter.

PRN Preferred:  We love the hardiness and the neat evergreen foliage of this fern.

The delicate, symmetrical evergreen Tassel Fern has dark green lustrous foliage. The fiddleheads when emerging have bronzy fuzz on them for an interesting effect. Polystichum polyblepharum makes a dense, attractive evergreen clump.