Dryopteris stewartii - Wood Fern

<strong><em><a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/ferns/ferns-by-variety/dryopteris.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dryopteris</a> </em>are superb ferns that form clumps of erect, spreading fronds.</strong> They are remarkably elegant and graphic. They can be deciduous or evergreen, depending on species and climate. In spring they produce superb croziers that unfurl to reveal majestic fronds. There are about 300 species, some of which grow wild in France, in French forests. Among them, <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/ferns/ferns-by-variety/dryopteris/dryopteris-filix-mas-male-fern.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Dryopteris filix-mas</em></a>, or male fern, is a robust species with large green deciduous fronds. In the garden, other Dryopteris are very interesting for their colours, such as <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/ferns/ferns-by-variety/dryopteris/dryopteris-erythrosora-copper-fern.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Dryopteris erythrosora</em></a>, which in spring takes on coppery-pink tones. <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/ferns/ferns-by-variety/dryopteris/dryopteris-wallichiana-wood-fern.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Dryopteris wallichiana</em></a>, for its part, bears fronds of a beautiful glossy green, contrasted by a brown central axis (rachis). <strong>Dryopteris are robust and quite hardy plants.</strong> They are fairly easy to grow and are seldom affected by disease or pests. <b>They thrive in cool, shaded positions</b>, sheltered from scorching sun, in humus-bearing, light soil. They are ideal plants to place in woodland understorey or in a naturalistic garden, but also in a shaded rockery or around a pond. They also find a place in mixed borders. They bring a lush, very green and graphic effect to the garden and create a plant backdrop that showcases more colourful blooms.