{"id":33531,"date":"2020-03-10T01:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fromhousetohome.com\/garden\/?p=33531"},"modified":"2024-11-23T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:17:23","slug":"hardy-fern-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromhousetohome.com\/garden\/hardy-fern-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Fern Varieties (20+ Perennial Ferns That Will Survive The Winter)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ferns are the staple of many shade gardens. This list of winter hardy fern varieties has lots of perennial fern species you can use — tall ferns, evergreen ferns, short ferns and even a few varieties that will grow in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After gathering some inspiration for the shade garden<\/a> I’m planning to create this year, I realized that most of the pictures have ferns in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love the lush look they give to the garden beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer, I always have hanging baskets with Boston ferns and a few Japanese painted ferns in my garden, but I have never tried growing any other winter hardy fern varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I decided to do some research, and came up with a whole bunch of options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of them are native plants that thrive in the shade…some are short, some are tall, some are evergreen and some will even survive in full sun! I didn’t realize that there were so many types of ferns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While they do not have flowers, many have interesting fertile fronds (the fern version of seed pods)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost all thrive in acidic soil (which isn’t a problem in my area), and like moist soil. So I’ll need to make sure they’re well watered (which shouldn’t be a problem either as long as I set up some soaker hoses<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s the list of winter hardy fern varieties I found.<\/p>\n\n\n