Adiantum x mairisii, Mairis's Maidenhair Fern Size:.5 qt Adapts well to pruning and

Adapts well to pruning and is one of our favorites

or half so inspiring in color and spicy fragrance

Fill your garden with Alchemilla mollis and take it from there

So this is the stemless thistle variation with a stem

jewel-like fairy flowers

Adiantum x mairisii, Mairis's Maidenhair Fern Size:.5 qt Adapts well to pruning andFine charcoal black stems hold fluffy light green leaflets on fronds 15 inches tall. It slowly proliferates, given moist humus and shade, to form a colony of lush, lacy, fresh green mounds. This, as was kindly pointed out to us, is easily confused with the Chinese Adiantum marisii (can't imagine why). This one, Adiantum x mairisii, was discovered ca. 1885 at Mairis & Co. Nursery in England, hence the spelling. It is deciduous but persists into winter.