Asplenium scolopendrium 'Cristatum' makes a beautiful specimen with shiny, evergreen, tongue-like fronds with a crested tip.

Hart's tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, makes a beautiful specimen with light green undissected foliage that looks like tongues.

Asplenium trichomanes is a darling little native fern that is incredibly tough with pure black stipes and bright green, oval shaped pinnae.

Athyrium 'Godzilla' is a giant Japanese painted fern growing 3 feet tall by 6 feet wide! Your shade garden will never be the same.

Tatting fern (Athyrium 'Frizelliae') is a real conversation piece with its alternating, half moon shaped, fringed pinnae.

Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum 'Lady in Red' has lacy, light green, arching fronds with red to purple-red stipes.

Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace' is a top notch Japanese painted fern flushed with beautiful purple-pink tones on silver blades.

Athyrium niponicum 'Crested Surf' is a Japanese painted fern with lacey, silver-green fronds and red stems with double crested tips.

Athyrium 'Regal Red' forms intense silver fronds with a red flush in the centre of each leaf along with red stems. Gorgeous.

Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Pewter Lace' is a Japanese Painted fern with silvery-green fronds and dark maroon midribs.

Athyrium otophorum 'Limelight' is an eared lady fern that has red stems (stipes) and lime green foliage that matures to green.

Coniogramme emeiensis 'Golden Zebra' is a variegated form of the bamboo fern with lime green horizontal stripes.

Dryopteris wallichiana Jurassic Gold 'Hollasic' has stunning gold and orange new foliage.

Osmunda cinnamomea is a cinnamon fern with vase-shaped, lush green fronds that gives rise to upright sporophytic fronds the colour of cinnamon.

Osmunda regalis is a beautiful, large, stately fern with light green foliage that gives a tropical look to the garden with fronds up to four feet long.

Virginia blue fern (Phlebodium aureum) offers amazing silver blue foliage for mild climates or as a striking houseplant.

Polystichum tsus-simense is an award winning evergreen rock fern with blue-green, glossy fronds and black veins.