Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs and a hardiness and drought

and a hardiness and drought tolerance rare among citrus

Unlike the dry-loving tickseeds

well into the heat of summer

white summer panicles

Site where the late-spring bloom can be seen in full

Athyrium x 'Ghost' Groundcover Shrubs and a hardiness and droughtTall, 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