Common name: Alpine Water Fern

Description: Blechnum penna-marina 'Volcano' is a compact, ground-hugging evergreen fern producing attractive, glossy, ladder-like fronds that emerge with coppery-red tones before maturing to deep, lustrous green. This low-growing variety is excellent as ground cover in shaded gardens and rockeries, or as an attractive edging plant along path edges. Tough and unfussy, it thrives in moist, shaded conditions and provides year-round interest with its distinctive, architectural foliage.

Other benefits: evergreen year-round interest, excellent ground cover, coppery new growth

Wildlife attraction: provides shelter for small invertebrates and ground beetles

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 20cm x 60cm

Position: partial shade to full shade

Soil pH: neutral to acid

Moisture: moist but well-drained; do not allow to dry out

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -15°C