Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs Beyond the kitchen

Beyond the kitchen

known as Faber's maple or emerald jade maple

more architectural than romantic

Standing twelve to thirty inches tall

well into the heat of summer

Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs Beyond the kitchenTall, upright, and luminous, the ghost fern brings a column of silvery light to the shade garden. Athyrium x 'Ghost' is a chance hybrid between the southern lady fern and the Japanese painted fern, found in Nancy Swell's Richmond, Virginia garden, taking the best of both parents: the upright, vase shaped stature of the lady fern and the frosted, silver green coloring of the painted fern, held on dark burgundy stems. Standing two to three feet, taller