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  • Athyrium filix femina ‘Victoriae’ Victoria lady fern Z 4-8

    OUT OF STOCK Clumping fern with finely divided fronds have tiny, twisted leaflets that cross one another. Vigorous grower. Dr, John Mickel, former curator of ferns at the New York...

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    Clumping fern with finely divided fronds have tiny, twisted leaflets that cross one another.  Vigorous grower.  Dr, John Mickel, former curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden, called this “the Queen of green.”

    Size: 18-24” x 18-24”
    Care: part to full shade in moist to moist well-drained soil

    Popular Victorian fern. Mutation of Lady Fern discovered in Scotland in 1861.

  • Athyrium filix-femina Lady fern Z 3-8

    ...fronds – leaflets upon the midrib usually opposite one another, 1-2’ long and 5-12” wide and tapered to a point at the tip. One of the easiest ferns to grow....

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    Clumping fern with lance-shaped, double compound fronds – leaflets upon the midrib usually opposite one another, 1-2’ long and 5-12” wide and tapered to a point at the tip. One of the easiest ferns to grow.

    Size: 4’ x 2-4’
    Care: moist to well-drained soil in full to part shade
    Native: temperate No. America including Wisconsin
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Chippewa made a decoction of the root for it diuretic. Meskwaki made a decoction from the roots to relieve breast pain after childbirth. For Ojibwa and Potawatomi it brought on milk flow in nursing mothers with caked breast. Ojibwa also dried and grated roots to heal sores. Quileute wiped fish with the leaves and ate roasted, peeled root.
    First described for botany, but given a different name, by English botanist Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706) in 1692.

  • Adiantum pedatum Maidenhair fern Z 4-9

    Grown for its delicate-appearing leaflets arranged in rows. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)...

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    Grown for its delicate-appearing leaflets arranged in rows. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 12-24”x 12”
    Care: Shade in moist soil
    Native: all parts of No. America including Wisconsin
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Cherokee made a tea from this for flu, fever, and rheumatism, paralysis and asthma.  Native Americans used stem to make a hair wash and applied a topical poultice of masticated fronds to wounds to stop bleeding.  1st described by French botanist Cornut in 1635.  Introduced to gardens in 1635 from Canada where it grew in “such quantities that the French sent it from thence in package for other goods and the apothecaries at Paris use it for (another Maidenhair) in all their compositions in which that is ordered.” Philip Miller (1768).  Tradescant the Younger introduced it to English gardens in 1638 when he sent it from Virginia Colony to London.  English herbalist Nicholas Culpepper claimed it as “a good remedy for coughs, asthmas, pleurisy, etc., and on account of being a gentle diuretic, also in jaundice, gravel and other impurities of the kidneys.”  Father of mixed perennial gardens, William Robinson, called this “elegant…unquestionably one of the most distinct and beautiful of the hardy ferns.” The Garden 1876.