Fishbone Water Fern

Blechnum nudum

A native fern for damp shade and creek edges. Forms a small trunk over time and takes real cold.

Sizes, same plant, different age. Mix as many as you like.

Ten or more of any one size drops to trade price automatically.

140mm 1 yr 20–30 cm now
720 ready $14.90

200mm 2 yr 40–60 cm now
240 ready $21.95

300mm 3 yr 60–90 cm now
67 ready $42.95

Flat $100 freight in Tasmania · free over $250 · free pick-up at the gate

Age: 1 yr
Height now: 20–30 cm
Container: 140 mm pot
Mature height: 1 m
Mature width: 1 m
Position: Shade
Habit: Evergreen
Growth rate: Moderate
Origin: Australian native

Good for

Ground cover

What it's like

Blechnum is the fern you see lining wet gullies right across Tasmania — bright green fronds in a neat shuttlecock, gradually building a short trunk. It's the easiest native fern to establish in a garden as long as the spot stays damp. Beautiful massed along a shaded fence line or under tree ferns.

Getting it established

Constant moisture and no direct afternoon sun. Happiest beside a downpipe or a pond.

Potted stock travels upright in a purpose-built carton with the rootball wrapped. Bare-root trees are lifted the week they ship, roots packed in damp shavings. Either way, get it in the ground within a week of arrival.

You've got twelve months. If it was planted the way we suggested and it hasn't come away, send us a photo and we'll replace it on the next run.

Ten or more of one line gets trade pricing without an account. Tell us the site and we'll check the spacing with you before you order.

Goes with

Plant it with.

All plants

Endemic

0.5m trunk salvaged $46.95

1m trunk salvaged $95.00

1.5m trunk salvaged $140.00

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Dicksonia antarctica

From $46.95 0.5 m trunk · salvaged 4 m tall

140mm 1 yr $12.40

200mm 2 yr $18.90

300mm 3 yr $35.95

Hellebore 'Winter Bell'

Helleborus × hybridus

From $12.40 140 mm pot · 1 yr 0.5 m tall

Bird food

Tube 1 yr $4.90

140mm 2 yr $12.90

200mm 3 yr $23.95

Native Fuchsia

Correa reflexa

From $4.90 Forestry tube · 1 yr 1.2 m tall

Local provenance

Tube 1 yr $6.90

140mm 2 yr $15.90

Silver Tussock

Poa labillardieri

From $6.90 Forestry tube · 1 yr 0.9 m tall