Autumn Brilliance Fern
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It is an evergreen (semi-evergreen in north zones), perennial herbaceous, see how the Autumn brilliance fern looks like in the garden and landscape.
Autumn Brilliance Fern is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. Other winter zone scales for planting this fern are ANBG: 1, 2; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4; PHZ: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Fern details
| Plant type | herbaceous, ornamental, containers | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen, semi-evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | shade, part shade | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright, fountain shape | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 45 sm - 60 sm | ||||||||
| Spread | 60 sm - 90 sm | ||||||||
| Spacing | 45 sm for mass plantings | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 6.0 - 7.5 (slightly acidic - slightly alkaline) | ||||||||
| Water needs | average | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, disease, heat, insect, humidity, rabbit, deep shade | ||||||||
| Gardens types | container, rock | ||||||||
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Dryopteris erythrosora or Autumn Brilliance fern - the autumn fern or Japanese shield fern is semi-evergreen or semi-deciduous - it loses foliage for a very short period, when old leaves fall off and new foliage growth is starting.
The Autumn Brilliance Fern is ideal for use as an accent in small garden spaces and in groupings or mass planted as an evergreen groundcover in larger landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to woodland and shade gardens, Asian theme gardens, rock gardens, tropical-look gardens, orange theme gardens and around garden ponds. Can be grown in vary of hardiness gardening zones and is also suitable as a houseplant.
The Autumn Fern is easy to grow and low maintenance. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and shade to partial shade avoiding direct afternoon sun. Morning sun with afternoon shade or late afternoon and evening sun is fine. Can be grown on any type of soil with variety of acidity or basicity, but clay and sand should be amended.
Excellent as a solo or combined with other plants in pots, planters and other containers which can be situated on patios, decks, porches and around other outdoor living spaces.
Not only beautiful, super-hardy and long-lived, the Autumn Fern is semi-evergreen. Autumn Brilliance is a selection adored for its its particularly attractive and longer lasting and brighter spring frond color. New fronds unfurl in striking shades of orange-red to copper-pink before eventually maturing to glossy deep green by summer and often back to orange-red after first fall frost. Young sori are covered by bright red indusia.
Growing in a vase shape to about 2 feet tall and equally as wide, Autumn Brilliance Fern is equally at home in containers as it is in garden beds and tolerates a little more sun than many other shade loving ferns.
Autumn Brilliance Fern @ wikipedia.
Autumn Brilliance Fern in the landscape and gardening
