Burgundy Lace Japanese Painted Fern

Gorgeous metallic color combination for your shaded gardens! The Burgundy Lace Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace') is a show-stopping Fern with contrasting leaves of silvery green and purple midribs on elegant, lacy, and frilly fronds!

New growth is ultra finely-toothed and textured and the most intriguing silvery-purple and burgundy! The fronds then mature to a silvery-green with that same vivid purple as a colorful midrib.

A variety of Japanese Painted Fern, these spread and form natural rosettes of arching, lacy fronds that are a prized groundcover. Resplendent in color and form, they add so much grace and finery to your garden's edges and mixed planters, just like the lace on the edge of a gown!

Elegant and graceful, yet tough and resilient, this perennial Fern will fill your USDA planting zones 4 to 9 shade gardens in lush color and texture! You'll not be surprised that Burgundy Lace was the Perennial Plant Association's 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year!

Planting and Application:

Burgundy Lace Fern is very striking when planted in large groups and allowed to naturalize freely en masse. A sea of burgundy-purple with silver will be amazing in the dappled shade! Perhaps best known as a shade groundcover, Japanese Painted Fern will easily fill an area with pearlescent colors. Plant along the edges of tree-lined borders and along the north/east facing areas of your home's foundation where not much else besides moss will grow.

Burgundy Lace makes a wonderful counterpoint to flowering perennials. Plant either with equally purple and dark-leafed plants such as Kodiak® Bush Honeysuckles or Hillside Black Beauty Bugbane, and colorful Coral Bells! Or pair with silvery-leafed plants such as Lamium, Lungworts, and Brunnera. Other shade garden perennials such as Astilbe and Hosta, Variegated Liriope, as well as other Ferns, all welcome the addition of these beauties!

Any urban or dappled courtyard garden will suit Ferns just fine. Blending into both formal and informal designs beautifully, no shaded Rock Garden, a Zen-inspired Meditation garden would be complete without one of these Ferns!

The high preference for water and wet sites makes Burgundy Lace the obvious choice for Rain Gardens, ponds, streams, and water features! Cascading along with your waterfalls and fountains happily! Plant around where shady gutters drain for a woodland glen or plant around your HVAC drainage area to soak up the extra moisture.

A wonderful underplanting for larger shrubs and trees where they will bask in the cool shade larger plants offer, These Painted Ferns creep and mingle under their shady limbs and will not interfere with each other's root systems.

Aptly sized for containers, these Ferns gray-green fronds will be the featured spiller and thriller to your shade patio planters!

• Silvery-Green With Purple Overcast
• Purple Midrib & Fine Texture!
• Dramatic Clump Forming Plant
• Herbaceous Groundcover Naturalizes Freely
• High Impact, Spreading Groundcover, Landscape Fill, Containers & Specimens
• Award-Winning!

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Burgundy Lace is a deceivingly hardy and easy-care Fern! It grows best in humus-rich ground, high in organic matter. Doing great in well-drained soils that retain moisture but will also adapt to tough conditions - like being tolerant of clay soils, and wet and soggy spots with high moisture and humidity.

As long as it remains shaded, especially in the hot summers of southern climates, Painted Ferns will tolerate a lot! Even frigid winters. Part-shade locations and sunny areas with afternoon shade are tolerable in cooler climates.

Divide plants in the early spring before new growth emerges. In spring before new growth begins, tidy up the mounds by removing or gently raking away any old, dead debris. Top-dress with compost and 3-4 inches of arborist mulch to keep the roots cool, hold moisture, and block weed competition.

Rabbit and deer-resistant Burgundy Lace Athyrium will be safe to plant in the out-of-the-way wooded areas and edges of your property without worry of damage.

• Full Shade to Partial Shade
• Grows in Wet & Clay Soils - Does Well in Acidic Soil
• Moist Soil & Water Loving Plant!
• Tolerant of Cold & Heat
• Easy Care & Low Maintenance
• Deer & Rabbit Pass It By - Pest & Disease Free

The Burgundy Lace Japanese Painted Fern is a great addition of lovely color to a shade garden. With its graceful ferny foliage, this plant will add texture to any shaded landscape! You'll be glad to have this sterling beauty rambling throughout your gardens, so give Nature Hills Nursery a call today!