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Description

Shady corners, meet your match! This fern collection turns the trickiest part of the garden into a feature. Three magnificent, fully hardy ferns, each a holder of the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, and combined to deliver a layered, multi-textured display of colour and form that evolves beautifully through every season of the year.

All three are fully hardy, virtually trouble-free and easy to grow. Plant them together in a shaded border or a large container for a display of genuine sophistication that will improve year on year.

You will receive one each of:

Athyrium niponicum 'Metallicum', known as the Painted Fern: Arching fronds in shimmering silver with rich burgundy-red veins threaded through each leaf. The colour palette shifts and evolves through the seasons, for a changing display that looks as though it has been hand-painted. Growing to around 40�45cm, it forms a neat, elegant, weed-suppressing clump.
Dryopteris erythrosora, known as the Copper Shield Fern: Brand new fronds emerge each spring in a blaze of vivid copper-pink, before deepening to rich, glossy dark green by summer. Fully hardy and virtually indestructible.
Polystichum munitum, known as the Western Sword Fern: Big, bold evergreen. Lustrous, dark green, sword-like fronds sweep upwards in a dramatic shuttlecock formation, staying lush, vibrant and fully evergreen throughout every single month of the year. Growing to around 90cm tall, this is a fern of genuine architectural presence.

Supplied as a set of three established plants, one of each variety, in 2 litre pots.

Top Tips

All ferns love a good pampering their first two years to get them established � lots of water and humous.

Care Information

Prepare the soil well and deeply before you plant your fern, removing all weeds and adding plenty of well-rotted organic matter such as leaves mold or composted bark.
Ferns need both moisture and good drainage, so a good, rich mulch helps considerably.
Plant your fern shallowly, with the crown flush with the surrounding soil and keep garden debris away from the base.
In spring, apply a new layer of mulch for the new growing year.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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