Casa Flora Ferns

Farmer Brown's Hydroponic Gardens

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Fern Name

Zone

Height

Type

American Royal
This American Royal Fern has delicate appearing fronds and can grow 4-5 feet tall in a clumping form and forms raised islands of root mass above swampy areas, but plants do well in garden locations in moist soil in sun or shade. They remain green until hard freezes.

2-10

24"
to
50"

Applecourt Crested Painted
A super crested form of Japanese Painted Fern. True clones of this distinctive crested form have all of the same wonderful delicate, colorful frond characteristics of its Japanese Painted Fern parent, but with added fullness from its heavy cresting characteristics.

4-8

12"
to
24"

Brilliance Autumn
Brilliance™ is a new and more colorful form of the ever-popular Autumn Fern. The young fronds of this excellent evergreen fern are more colorful than the generic species from Asia. The young fronds are lustrous and have an orange-coppery pink color that enlivens the garden landscape. Its growth habit is identical to Autumn, but more showy. One of the top ten ferns in the garden.

5-8

18"
to
24"

Crested Golden Scaled Male Fern (New for 2009)
A three foot high clump of dark shiny green with two tufted lines shooting from the crown to converge at the tip of each frond draws comments whether it is used as a specimen or as a massed background planting. Dr. Mickel has included these in the Mickel Collection™ because of their graceful elegance and durability.

4-9

24"
to
48"

Dixie Wood Fern
This is one of the great spectacular ferns with tall erect growth and wide dark green fronds. It is also included in the prestigious selected ferns in the Mickel Collection™. One parent is the Log Fern (Dryopteris celsa) and the other parent is the Southern Wood Fern (Dryopteris ludoviciana) and is native to the U.S.A.

5-9

48"
to
60"

S-E

Fortune's Cold Hardy (New for 2009)
Another excellent evergreen to semi evergreen upright fern, which will tolerate colder winters than the Japanese Holly Fern even though both of them are of Oriental origin. It is an easy, fast grower with a tall erect habit and with a dull grayish green color. It is becoming naturalized in the woods of the Mid-Atlantic states.

5-10

18"
to
30"

S-E

Hairy Lip
This clump forming fern is drought tolerant and is the perfect fern where rainfall is low. It is native in both limestone and limestone-free rocky well drained soil in both sunny and shady locations east of the Rockies.

5-9

6"
to
16"

Interrupted
A majestic fern that resembles the Cinnamon fern fronds, but it is distinct in having the sporangia borne in the middle portion of the frond with vegetative leaflets above and below, giving an interrupted effect to the frond. Foliage turns golden yellow in late fall.

2-8

24"
to
48"

Japanese Beech
This is one of our favorite ferns and has a well deserved place in the Mickel Collection™. It has been around for a long time, but is still underutilized. Slowly spreading as a dense clump, its fuzzy light bright green leaves are an unusual shape for ferns. Like the other Thelypteris, this one appreciates a little extra moisture in the soil although it is not necessary.

4-10

12"
to
24"

Japanese Holly
This great shiny dark evergreen is one of the Top Ten garden ferns in shady areas in the south, and also does well as a houseplant. Its new fronds are four to seven inches wide, which form a vase like crown. Its two-foot fronds have up to 14 pairs of glossy leaflets. Older plants may have a four-foot spread. The glossy evergreen fronds are a perfect background for flowering plants or hosta in the shady garden.

6-10

18"
to
30"

Jumbo Ostrich Fern (New for 2009)
This new selected clone is a stronger growing and larger ostrich fern with huge plume like fronds. This selection of Ostrich has an enormous crown and fertile fronds that are 50% larger than those on Native Ostrich Fern. Left alone it will form colonies from its underground spreading rhizomes.. It is one of the premier ferns in the Mickel Collection™.

2-8

36"
to
84"

Korean Rock
Korean Rock Fern is one of the nicest small hardy ferns. Standing 12 to 18 inches high, this dark shiny fern forms a dense clump of stiff leaves that is useful to border beds or walls as well as mass planted for a low groundcover. The black veins accentuate the pointed tips of the pinnate. This fern also can be used as a potted plant in the home.

6-8

8"
to
18"

Lady in Red
Lady In Red™ is an exciting new tissue cultured introduction of Casa Flora from a exceptional plant with vibrant burgundy stipe (stem), which creates a sharp contrast with its green fronds. It was found by the New England Wildflower Society in the woodlands of Massachusetts. Plants must undergo winter dormancy for bright color and full color does not occur until the second dormancy and maturity in the garden.

3-8

30"
to
36"

Linear Male

This tall fern has narrow leaflets, which give it a delicate lacy appearance, but with a leathery texture. Like all male ferns, Linear Male is easy to grow and tolerant of drought and shade

4-8

36"

Makino's Holly Fern (New for 2009)
This is another excellent new fern to us and fern growers. We felt it worthy of introduction due to its attractive vigorous erect growth and its hardiness over such a large area of the U.S.A. in moist garden soil. We have included it in its rightful place in the Mickel Collection™.

5-9

20"
to
30"

Mexican Male

This rare wood fern was found in tropical Mexico at 8000-foot elevation near Oxaca by Dr. John Mickel. It forms a large crown, which can become five foot across and four foot tall. Unlike many other Dryopteris, it continues to produce new fronds throughout the growing season until frost. It is in the Mickel Collection™.

5-8

30"
to
48"

Parsley Leaf Male Fern (New for 2009)
This new fern was a foundling of unknown parentage that was given to us by a customer who wanted us to produce it because it was so appealing with its crinkled and crested dark green foliage. Every frond is different. Based on customer comments it should make a great addition to the fern palette.

4-8

18"
to
24"

Rosy Maidenhair

A tough indoor fern that is also used outdoors in the garden. Delicate foliage, but easy to grow. Its new fronds are pinkish-red and brighten its delicate foliage.

8-11

18"
to
24"

Recurved Broad Buckler Fern (New for 2009)
This excellent tall and broad fern has unusual drooping leaflets, which give it a unique attractive form and texture in the landscape.

4-8

24"
to
42"

Soft Shield (Alaskan) Fern (New for 2009)
Although it is sometimes called Alaska Fern, it is a common fern in England and Southern Europe. It is easy to grow in moist soil, humid atmosphere where it will produce long, glossy, grass green fronds. There are hundreds of named varieties of this popular fern.

6-8

36"

S-E

Tassel
Called Tassel because as the fronds unfurl the tips, covered with golden scales, dangle like 3” tassels. A large specimen with 10 or 15 tassels is a spectacular sight. One of the Top Ten ferns with large, soft, glossy green fronds that arch symmetrically from the crown. Native to Japan and China.

5-8

12"
to
24"

Tatting
Wow! At first glance you will not believe this is a fern due to its most unique fronds. It is a form of deciduous lady fern from Europe. It was found in 1857 in Ireland in the garden of Mrs. Frizell. It is an old fern new to most gardeners even though plants from spore are highly variable in form and vigor.

4-8

12"
to
24"

Thick Stemmed Wood
It has to be an excellent handsome plant to be stuck with an ugly name like crassirhizoma. In fact it is so good, it made the cut to be included in the top ferns in the Mickel Collection™. It grows as a clump with erect arching fronds from a central crown.

5-9

24"
to
42"

S-E

Tokyo Wood
This fern stands out in a bed of foliages due to its stiffly erect form with narrow fronds. It grows vigorously and makes an attractive focal point in the garden or mixed seasonal color pot. This distinctive wood fern is included in the Mickel Collection™.

5-8

18"
to
30"

Upside Down Fern (New for 2009)
Prominent veins on the top of the frond give the impression you are looking at the bottom. Tall, evergreen and lighter green than many ferns; this makes a specimen for background or naturalizing in a woodland setting.

6-9

12"
to
36"

Victoria Lady
One of the most unique and spectacular ferns that can only be produced in tissue culture to duplicate. This superb selection has fronds whose pinnae (leaflets) crisscross to form x’s and has crested pinnae tips. Another superior cultivar in the Mickel Collection ™.

4-9

18"
to
24"

Virginia Chain Fern (New for 2009)
A great landscaping fern for those tough areas. This ferns has been seen growing interspersed with native grass in full sun in central Florida and bogs in New York. Black stems and olive new growth adds interest to this colonizer of wet and damp areas.

3-10

12"
to
24"

Gemmiferous Spikemoss (New for 2009)
It must be good if people will buy it with such a difficult name. Use it as a groundcover or as a trailing pot plant. It is evergreen in lower New York if protected with leaf mulch.

6-10

6"
to
18"