Burgundy Lace Lady Fern

Gorgeous color combination for your shaded gardens! The Burgundy Lace Lady Fern (Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace') is a show-stopping Fern with its contrasting leaves of silvery green and purple midribs on elegant, lacy and frilly fronds!

New growth is ultra finely-toothed and textured and the most intriguing silvery-purple and burgundy! The fronds then mature to a silvery-green with that same vivid purple as a colorful midrib.

A variety of Japanese Painted Fern, these spread and form natural rosettes of arching, lacy fronds that a prized groundcover. Resplendent in color and form, they add so much grace and finery to your garden's edges, like lace on the edge of a gown!

Elegant and graceful, yet tough and resilient, Burgundy Lace will fill your shaded garden spaces in lush color and texture!

You'll not be surprised that Burgundy Lace was the Perennial Plant Association's 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year!

How to Use Burgundy Lace Lady Fern In The Landscape

Burgundy Lace makes a wonderful counterpoint to flowering perennials. Plant either with equally purple-leafed plants such as Kodiak® Bush Honeysuckles or Hillside Black Beauty Bugbane, and colorful Coral Bells!

Or pair with silvery-leafed plants such as Lamium, Lungworts and Brunnera. Astilbe and Hosta, Variegated Liriope as well as other Ferns, all welcome the addition of these beauties!

Any urban or dappled courtyard garden will suit Ferns just fine. Blending into both formal and informal designs beautifully, no shaded rock garden, Asian or Zen-inspired garden would be complete without one of this Fern!

The high preference for water and wet sites makes Burgundy Lace the obvious choice for ponds, streams and water features! Cascading along with your waterfalls and fountains happily! Plant around where shady gutters drain for a woodland glen or plant around your HVAC drainage area to soak up the extra moisture.

A wonderful underplanting for larger shrubs and trees where they will bask in the cool shade larger plants offer, Lady Fern creeps and mingles under their shady limbs and will not interfere with each other's root systems.

Burgundy Lace Lady Fern is very striking when planted in large groups and allowed to naturalize freely en masse. A sea of burgundy-purple with silver will be amazing in the dappled shade! 

Perhaps best known as a shade groundcover, Lady Fern will easily fill an area with its pearlescent colors.

Plant along the edges of tree-lined borders and along the north/east facing areas of your home's foundation where not much else besides moss will grow.

Aptly sized for containers, Lady Fern's gray-green fronds will be the featured spiller and thriller to your shade patio planters!

#ProPlantTips For Care

Burgundy Lace is a deceivingly hardy Fern, for growing zones 5-8. It grows best in humus-rich ground, high in organic matter. Doing great in well-drained soils that retain moisture but will also adapt to tough conditions. It is tolerant of clay soils, wet and soggy spots with high moisture and humidity.

As long as it remains shaded, especially in the hot summers of southern climates, Lady Fern will tolerate a lot, even frigid winters. Part shade locations are tolerable in cooler climates of growing zone 4 and up!

Rather deer resistant Athyrium Burgundy Lace will be safe to plant in the out-of-the-way wooded areas and edges of your property without worry of damage. Divide plants in the early spring before new growth emerges.

Burgundy Lace is a great addition of lovely color to a shade garden. With its graceful fern-like foliage, this plant will add texture to any shaded landscape!

You'll be glad to have this sterling beauty rambling throughout your gardens, so give Nature Hills Nursery a call today!