Woodwardia fimbriata

Description

Woodwardia fimbriata is one of our favourite ferns here at Big Plant, almost tree fern like fronds are rapidly produced during the growing season. The fronds are a deep lush green and produced in a symmetrical vase like formation up to 1.2m high and 1.5m wide creating a large specimen in just a few years.

Like many ferns Woodwardia fimbriata does best in a slightly acidic fertile moisture retentive soil. Here on our brick making clay we add lots of well-rotted farmyard manure and ericaceous compost when planting. Generally classed as an evergreen fern Woodwardia fimbriata holds its fronds well during the winter months only looking a little tired just before the new spring fronds are produced, we generally cut off all the old leaves in late winter to keep them looking really lush. A time when we generally tidy them up by completely removing the winter damaged fronds.

A perfect specimen fern for the shady garden proving to be pretty tough and reliable in most locations.