Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia'

An evergreen fern forming a rosette of erect to arching, narrow, leathery, glossy, bright green fronds with ruffled margins. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Athyrium niponicum 'Metallicum' (Japanese Painted Fern)

A clump-forming, deciduous fern bearing arching, lance-shaped, pinnate, red- or purple-flushed, silvery-grey fronds with lance-shaped to ovate, notched or lobed pinnae. Height 30cm (1ft), Spread 60cm (2ft).

Cyrtomium fortunei

An upright evergreen fern, with pale-green, broad, smooth fronds that do not look like a traditional fern. Height & Spread 60cm (2ft).

Dryopteris affinis (Scaly Male Fern)

A semi-evergreen fern. Its feathery fronds emerge yellow-green, maturing to deep green, and are arranged in an upright rosette. Height 1.5m (5ft), Spread 1m (3ft).

Dryopteris atrata (Shaggy Wood Fern)

A vigorous, clump-forming, evergreen fern with arching, lance-shaped, bright green fronds divided into scalloped, broadly linear, tapered, slightly overlapping pinnae. Height & Spread 1m (3ft).

Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside'

A deciduous to semi-evergreen fern bearing shuttlecock-like rosettes of upright, arching, dark green fronds, yellow-green when new, with crisped, toothed segments. Height 1m (3ft), Spread 1.2m (4ft).

Dryopteris erythrosora (Copper Shield Fern)

A compact, clump-forming, semi-evergreen fern with broadly ovate, bi- or tripinnate fronds and red young spores (sori). Fronds are bronze- to copper-pink when young turning semi-glossy and dark green with age.

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Barnesii' (Male Fern)

An upright, clump-forming, semi-evergreen fern bearing narrowly lance-shaped, glossy, pinnate, mid- to bright green fronds with oval to triangular, toothed pinnae. Height & Spread 1.2m (4ft).

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Crispa Cristata' (Male Fern)

A deciduous to semi-evergreen fern forming a large clump of lance-shaped, erect to arching, bipinnate, crested, mid- to bright green fronds with crested and crisped pinnae. Height & Spread 60cm (2ft).

Dryopteris filix-mas 'Furcans' (Male Fern)

An upright, clump-forming, semi-evergreen fern bearing ovate, glossy, pinnate, mid- to bright green fronds with narrow, widely-spaced pinnae, forked at the tip. Height 75cm (2.5ft), Spread 60cm (2ft).

Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern)

A vigorous, clump-forming, deciduous fern with upright, lance-shaped, bipinnate, mid-green fronds divided into narrowly lance-shaped pinnae with small, oval segments. Height 1.5m (5ft), Spread 1m (3ft).

Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern)

A hardy fern, forming a large clump of bipinnate fronds with russet-brown spores at the tips. The fronds are flushed red in autumn. Height 2.5m (8ft), Spread 1m (3ft).

Platycerium bifurcatum (Common Staghorn Fern)

An evergreen fern with erect or horizontal, rounded, heart-shaped, or kidney shaped, mid-green sterile fronds turning brown with age and forked, densely hairy, grey-green fertile fronds with strap-shaped segments.

Polypodium vulgare (Common Polypody Fern)

A fern forming alternating, triangular-shaped fronds divided all the way back to the central stem. Height 10cm (4in), Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Polystichum polyblepharum (Japanese Tassel Fern)

A hardy evergreen fern producing shuttlecocks of dark green fronds covered in golden hairs. Height & Spread 1m (3ft).

Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen' (Soft Shield Fern)

A clump-forming, evergreen fern with soft spreading dark green fronds arranged in shuttlecocks. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Polystichum setiferum 'Plumosum Densum'

A small, perennial, evergreen fern with finely divided and heavily congested green foliage with feathery tips. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Polystichum setiferum 'Proliferum' (Soft Shield Fern)

An evergreen or semi-evergreen fern, with broad, lance-shaped or oval, finely divided, soft and moss like fronds, clothed with white scales as they unfurl. The largest fronds bear plantlets on the upper-sides.

Polystichum setiferum (Soft Shield Fern)

A clump-forming, evergreen fern with rosettes of upright, lance-shaped, bipinnate, soft fronds, each divided into ovate, bristle-toothed, stalked pinnae. Pinnae have prominent, orange-brown scales (sori) beneath.