Sword Fern Part Shade Just as the name suggests

Just as the name suggests

This is a thicket-forming

Phlox paniculata

and winter songbirds eat the seeds or seedheads

The seeds will often be food for birds such as Mourning Dove

Sword Fern Part Shade Just as the name suggestsNephrolepis exaltata Common names also include Boston Sword Fern, Southern Sword Fern, Boston Fern, Wild Boston Fern, Fishbone Fern, Boston Bluebell Fern, Tuber Ladder Fern. Sword Fern is a fern native to Texas (notably Dallas and Henderson county near our nursery), Florida, Mexico, and areas in Central and South America. Its sword shaped fronds grow upright and lightly arch and curve outwards with age. In hardiness zones 9 and above, it is an