(Japanese Painted Fern)

This natural variety of Japanese Painted Fern is a deciduous ground fern native to moist forest floors of Japan, Korea and Taiwan with very beautiful leaves. It produces dense clumps of delicately divided fronds in varying shades of gray-green and metallic silver often flushed with red. The leaf's midrib is usually red to purple. These ferns appear to splay horizontally as if arching towards the ground. As they mature, they spread by forming multiple crowns.

Japanese painted fern requires part...

(Apple Court Japanese Painted Fern, Japanese Painted Fern)

This natural variety of Japanese Painted Fern is a deciduous ground fern native to moist forest floors of Japan, Korea and Taiwan with very beautiful leaves. It produces dense clumps of delicately divided fronds in varying shades of gray-green and metallic silver often flushed with red. The leaf's midrib is usually red to purple. 'Apple Court' leaflets often end with a small crest or forked leaf. These ferns appear to splay horizontally as if arching towards the ground. As they mature, they spread...

(Burgundy Lace Painted Fern, Japanese Painted Fern)

Burgundy Lace Painted Fern, or Japanese Painted Fern, is a deciduous ground fern grown for its dense clumps of delicately divided fronds in varying shades of burgundy, purple, and metallic silver often flushed with pink. The fronds have a wide band of deep burgundy running down the center, and the outer edges are silver-burgundy. It is native to the forest floors of Japan, where it grows in moist, fertile soil. It spreads slowly by forming multiple crowns.

The Japanese Painted Fern requires...

(Japanese Painted Fern, Pewter Lace Painted Fern)

Pewter Lace Painted Fern, or Japanese Painted Fern, is a deciduous ground fern grown for its dense clumps of delicately divided metallic pewter fronds with a deep burgundy stem. The fronds are bluish-green closest to the stem and silver at the outer edges. It is native to the forest floors of Japan, where it grows in moist, fertile soil. It spreads slowly by forming multiple crowns.

The Japanese Painted Fern requires consistently moist acidic to neutral soil; enrich it with leaf mold or compost....

(Japanese Painted Fern, Silver Falls Japanese Painted Fern)

This selection of Japanese Painted Fern is a hardy, deciduous ground fern grown for its dense clumps of delicately divided silver fronds with a prominent dark-burgundy stem. The leaflets are grayish-blue closest to the stem and become more silver toward the outer edges. This fern is slower to emerge in spring than other painted ferns, and its silver color becomes more pronounced as the season progresses. It is descended from a native of forest floors in Japan, where it grows in moist, fertile soil....

(Japanese Painted Fern, Ursula's Red Japanese Painted Fern)

Japanese Painted Fern is a deciduous ground fern native to moist forest floors of Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It produces dense clumps of delicately divided. As these ferns mature they spread by forming multiple crowns. 'Ursula's Red' is a very silvery fern flushed with red and red undersides. The leaves fade to more silver and green in summer.

'Ursula's Red' requires part to full shade to thrive, and soil enriched with leaf mold. The fronds are fragile and break easily so it is best to plant...

(Auriculate Ladyfern)

Native to Asia, auriculate ladyfern is a slow-spreading clumping fern. Its wide sword-like leaves are deep green with a reddish-purple midrib.

These plants are easy to grow in shade with humus-rich soil that is evenly moist. Auriculate ladyfern makes a nice groundcover and also looks nice planted among rocks or at the edges of natural or formal water features.

(Butterleaves, Cultivated Orache)

A lovely addition to vegetable gardens, edible landscapes, and ornamental plantings, this medium-sized to large annual has been cultivated for thousands of years for its nutritious, tasty, and attractive leaves. Native to Asia, it has naturalized over much of Europe, the Mediterranean and North America.

Heart-shaped or arrow-shaped leaves with smooth or toothed margins line the upright unbranched stems. The leaves are green, yellowish-green, red, or purple, with a luminous sheen when young....

(Red Butterleaves, Red Cultivated Orache)

A cool-season annual originating in Asia but naturalized throughout much of the rest of the world, orache has long been cultivated for its nutritious, tasty, and attractive leaves. The variety rubra is known for its stunning red or purple leaves and stems. It has given rise to numerous showy-leaved cultivars.

Heart-shaped or arrow-shaped leaves with smooth or toothed margins line the upright unbranched stems. The leaves and stems have a luminous sheen when young. In hot weather stems...

(Purple Rockcress)

The genus Aubrieta contains approximately 12 species of evergreen to semi-evergreen flowering perennials in the cabbage family. Most of the species originate from the mountainous and alpine regions of southern Europe and Central Asia and are grown for their showy springtime blooms. This genus is named in honor of Claude Aubriet (1665-1742), a botanical illustrator to the French court.

These mat-forming, herbaceous plants are clothed in simple, lightly hairy leaves. The small leaves...