Christmas Fern {25 Pots

Christmas Fern {25 Pots - 3 1/2 in.}

Aptly nicknamed, Polystichum acrostichoides, commonly called Christmas Fern, is a favorite evergreen fern everyone loves to place in patches throughout their gardens. Its lanceolate emerald fronds are divided and leathery with hardy, holly-like leaflets and edible silvery spring-time fiddleheads.

Typically, it grows in fountain-like clumps with the fronds sprouting out of a solitary crown which, over the years, makes a very large, dense mound.

Christmas Fern shows her foliage off when she is used as a borders, edging and along foundations or walls. Difficult spaces with little soil don't intimidate this fern and you'll be surprised at how adaptable and willing to grow she is.

Christmas Fern is low maintenance, easy-to-grow, and deer tend to avoid her. When placed on slight slopes, especially drier, rocky ones, mass plantings of Christmas fern will provide a lush hillside of green that doubles as erosion control.

Interesting Facts

Edible fiddleheads are considered a delicacy and have been named Vermont's state vegetable. Try cooking these delightful vegetables by simply harvesting when about two inches from the ground and still tightly rolled. Treat them as you would asparagus or try them in quiches and soups. Delicious!

Christmas Fern is a Missouri native found in ravines and on humid banks and wooded slopes.

The common name "Christmas Fern" comes from its evergreen nature and its past use as Christmas decoration; its pinnae even resemble small Christmas stockings.

Gardener Tips
With her slow to moderate growth rate, Christmas Fern grows very little in the first season. Consider purchasing more plants initially for quicker coverage with the bonus of being able to divide her after a few years.

Polystichum acrostichoides' fronds are often used in flower arrangements.

This fern will not disappoint you in a rock garden coupled with such beauties as Creeping Jenny. to blanket the ground and Lavender for vivid contrasts in texture and colors of foliage. Add Coral Bells to soften the garden and provide lovely flower spikes.

If you are considering purchasing this plant in bare root form, please read about bare root plants so you know what to expect.

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General information about Ferns:
When gardeners and landscape designers are looking for a dramatic, vibrant spray of color and foliage, they will often consider ferns for their project. In addition to sweeping texture and lush greenery, ferns work wonderfully as independent or companion perennials.

Perfect in mass plantings where they create the feeling of a field of grass swaying gently in soft breezes, ferns are also delightful as borders where they stand like shapely chartreuse soldiers at the edges of garden beds. Then again, when used as accents, in single plantings, or clusters amidst a rock garden, you have a moving work of willowy art.

But what to choose? You’ll be pleased to know that after more than 40 years of experimenting with various ferns, we have compiled a selection of the easiest to grow and hardiest ferns.Essentially, we’ve narrowed the list down for you, so you can select from our varieties with confidence. A bonus with our ferns is that all, except Japanese Painted Fern and Japanese Shield Fern are native to the United States.

Our ferns generally thrive in part shade and full shade. Have a full sun location? Southern Shield Fern even tolerates full sun! You will love the hardiness of our ferns as all of them are tolerant of drought and most are rarely eaten by deer.

Selections like Christmas Fern are wonderful erosion control options. With some ferns being evergreen and some semi-evergreen, you are sure to find the option that works wonderfully for your garden. Be sure to check each plant's Description tab for details.

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Specifications:

Cold hardiness zone: 3-9 (-40 degrees F) - Contact your local extension to confirm hardiness if you are in a fringe zone (we cannot guarantee hardiness in fringe zones)
AHS Heat Zone: 8-1
Light: Part sun Shade
Growth rate: Slow to moderate
Mature height: 12-24"
Spread: 12-24"
Spacing: 9-12"
Tolerant of: Deer, Drought, Rabbits
pH of Soil: 4.5 - 6.8, Ideal pH: 5.2 - 5.7
Grows Under Trees: Conifer - Yes, Walnut - No, Other - Yes
Good for borders & edging: Yes
Good for erosion control: Yes
Evergreen: Yes
Native to the U.S.: Yes
Good for slopes: Yes

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04/25/2018 By Katherine Titus
Product reviewed: Christmas Fern {25 Bare Root plants}

04/25/2018 Update This is my third purchase in 4 years as I expand my garden area. I have poor soil (clay and shale). The plants take some time to get established but the older ones are doing well and I have great expectations for this years planting.

Great price, great quality!
03/21/2018 By Claire Brooks
Product reviewed: Christmas Fern {25 Bare Root plants}

03/21/2018 Update I am SO pleased with my Christmas ferns. The packing was wonderful--lots of moss, and the ferns arrived in great condition. They are already growing after not quite a week in the ground. I look forward to the next purchase!

Great plants
10/05/2017 By Sharon
Product reviewed: Christmas Fern {25 Pots - 3 1/2 in.}

10/05/2017 Update My plants arrived quickly and in good health. I am very pleased! I will definitely buy from Classy Groundcovers again.

Hooray for Christmas ferns
10/05/2017 By Sharon Lemler
Product reviewed: Christmas Fern {25 Pots - 3 1/2 in.}

10/05/2017 Update The small Christmas ferns were in beautiful shape - bright green and happy. We planted them in the sandy wooded dunes of Lake Michigan - where we have twice before planted the same plants, from CG. Now we will have three "stages" of the... Read full review >

Christmas Ferns
10/04/2017 By James Hood
Product reviewed: Christmas Fern {10 Bare Root plants}

10/04/2017 Update Plants arrived in excellent condition.

Jim Hood

No unusual shipping concerns for this plant.

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Ferns have delicate foliage that often suffers during shipment and transplanting. Cut off any foliage that is broken, bent, brown or yellow - the plants will quickly recuperate with fresh growth. Bare root ferns are particularly prone to foliage loss, it is not uncommon to have to cut them off at ground level when transplanting. As long as the roots are firm they will recover, showing new growth within weeks during warm months.

General information that applies to all plants:
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Polystichum acrostichoides
(AKA Nephrodium acrostichoides, Dagger Fern, Polystic Faux-acrostiche)

Pronunciation: pol-ISS-tih-kum ak-roe-stik-OY-deez

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