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.

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.

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.