Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs Unlike the dry-loving tickseeds

Unlike the dry-loving tickseeds

and the feathered crown is a case of convergent evolution rather than kinship

known as Faber's maple or emerald jade maple

well into the heat of summer

Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs Unlike the dry-loving tickseedsTall, upright, and luminous, the ghost fern brings a column of silvery light to the shade garden. Athyrium x 'Ghost' is a chance hybrid between the southern lady fern and the Japanese painted fern, found in Nancy Swell's Richmond, Virginia garden, taking the best of both parents: the upright, vase shaped stature of the lady fern and the frosted, silver green coloring of the painted fern, held on dark burgundy stems. Standing two to three feet, taller