Plant: Holly Fern
Holly Fern · Cyrtomium falcatum
$15.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
More about this plant
A clumping evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with glossy, leathery dark green fronds of holly-like leaflets, about 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. It grows slowly in dappled light to deep shade in moist, well-drained soil, and resists deer, rabbits, heat and humidity. Use it in woodland edges, borders, containers and mass plantings.
- Part Shade
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Semi-Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A clumping evergreen to semi-evergreen fern with glossy, leathery dark green fronds of holly-like leaflets, about 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. It grows slowly in dappled light to deep shade in moist, well-drained soil, and resists deer, rabbits, heat and humidity. Use it in woodland edges, borders, containers and mass plantings.
- Foliage
- Glossy, leathery dark green pinnately compound fronds with scythe-shaped, holly-like leaflets, reaching about 2 feet long.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Pruning
- Pruning is not required; frost-damaged fronds can be removed for appearance.
- Native range
- Eastern Asia (China to temperate eastern Asia and Vietnam); naturalized in parts of the southeastern US
