Athyrium niponicum 'Metallicum' Size:15cm / 1.5L This plant features small

This plant features small

The plant itself is architectural and tropical-feeling: huge palmate leaves up to 25cm across on smoothly arching stems

but leaf tips may brown if the air is very dry

and Cody Bond's beautiful illustrations will inspire you along the way

particularly areas with high humidity and filtered light

Athyrium niponicum 'Metallicum' Size:15cm / 1.5L This plant features smallThe Athyrium niponicum 'Metallicum', better known as the Japanese painted fern, is one of the most colourful hardy ferns you can grow. Its arching, deeply divided fronds are a soft silver grey with a cool metallic sheen, brushed with green and flushed wine red along the midribs and burgundy stems. Few shade plants light up a dim corner quite like it, and it holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit as a genuinely garden worthy exotic border fern. Fully