Common Name: Apple Court Japanese Painted Fern
Bloomcolor: Silver/grey shades
Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade to Full Shade
Height: 12.0 Inches
Spread: 24.0 Inches
Spacing: 24.0 Inches
Water: Average Water Needs
Hardiness: Zones 4,5,6,7,8
Zone: 5
Deer Resistant: Deer Resistant
Characteristics: This lovely crested form of Japanese Painted Fern is very similar to ‘Pictum’ in color, but the pinnae (leaflets) are distinctly crested all the way up the frond and at the tip. The plant has a low, mounding habit and spreads slowly by rhizomes., Pests & Diseases: Nematodes, aphids, whiteflies, and fern moth caterpillar in greenhouse; thrips, scales, mealybugs, black vine weevil, fern snail (Deroceras), armyworms, Japanese beetle, crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars in the field., Rabbit Resistant Deer Resistant,