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Japanese Painted Fern Burgundy Lace Add exotic interest to shady spots with these unique ferns! 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year! Burgundy Lace Japanese Painted Ferns evoke the shady tranquility of its native Oriental gardens. Lovely clumps 12-20" high with a spread of up to 36" have a weeping habit and exquisite foliage that appears “painted” with silver. This gorgeous fern is known for its silver gray foliage with purple-red veins and stems with a weeping habit. The color is stronger with some light sun. Multiple landscape use includes woodland gardens, shade gardens, shade border fronts, such as a north side of a building, rock gardens, or along streams or ponds. Plan on making the soil quite organic by adding several inches of compost to the planting hole or mulch with equal amounts of compost each spring. You could also add several inches of peat moss to the planting hole as this plant appreciates a bit of acidity. If grown in a good soil, it will hold its coloring all summer long, from the earliest spring fronds right through until a good hard frost knocks it to the ground. This fern coloring lends itself to being an excellent contrast plant to other shade perennials. Try growing it with Hosta (I particularly liked the combinations of gold leafed Hosta with this plant), bleeding hearts, columbines, astilbe and heuchera. One combination that has been recommended is Japanese painted fern with Hosta ‘Patriot’ and ‘Ginko Craig’. One gallon size plants.
Price: $9.50
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Fun Plant FactsAn African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. A pineapple is a berry. Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Peanuts are beans. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America. The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches. The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots. Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. These facts are gathered from the internet and may or may not be true. |
