Four Ghost Japanese Painted Ferns - Planted May 2021
I have been eying the addition of some Japanese Painted Ferns to our backyard all this growing season. I have one that I planted on the north side of the screened porch in 2018 . It is a Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum' and it has done really well on it's own over there mostly being left alone. Here's what it looked like last Fall/late Summer in August of 2020 . And in Priority Area #1 from this year , I was thinking of using Japanese Painted ferns instead of the (currently) spec'd Ostrich Ferns. When I was at the Morton Arboretum Spring Sale, I came across these painted ferns and I ended up buying four of them to add to the backyard. Here's the tag (below), which shows these aren't the same "Pictum" ferns that I had already, rather they are called Ghost Japanese-Lady Ferns. Athyrium 'Ghost' and they're described as a 'hybrid with the best qualities of Japanese Painted and Lady Fern'. Kinda great, right? I have one Lady F...