# @ahs_gardening on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-06T14:15:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** American Horticultural Society | American Gardener Magazine (@ahs_gardening) — https://gondola.cc/ahs_gardening

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If your garden feels a little tired by August, take a look at what's still doing the heavy lifting. Chances are, it's the foliage.⁠
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When most perennials fade, evergreen ferns are just getting started. 🌿⁠
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They bring texture, structure, and fresh green foliage to the garden long after flowers have disappeared—and some stay beautiful even beneath a blanket of snow.⁠
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In "Evergreen Ferns," Jane Roy Brown introduces a few favorites worth getting to know.⁠
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🌿 Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) keeps its glossy fronds through winter, earning its name from generations of gardeners who gathered it for holiday greenery.⁠
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🌿 Rock polypody (Polypodium virginianum) makes its home on mossy boulders, slowly weaving a carpet of evergreen fronds where few other plants can thrive.⁠
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🌿 Deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant) forms an elegant fountain of arching evergreen foliage around a central cluster of fertile fronds, adding year-round texture to woodland gardens.⁠
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🌿 Braun's holly fern (Polystichum braunii) is one of North America's hardiest evergreen ferns, bringing graceful form and lasting structure to shady landscapes across much of the Northeast and Great Lakes region.⁠
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Flowers may steal the show in spring, but evergreen ferns quietly carry the garden through the rest of the year.⁠
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Do you grow any evergreen ferns in your garden?⁠
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To read “Evergreen Ferns: The Plants That Never Fade” visit our January/February issue at ahsgardening.org. ⁠
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Not a member? Join us at us at ahsgardening.org/join to become a member and gain full access to American Gardener magazine. ⁠
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📸 creds: Doreen Wynja, Christopher J. Earle, Mary Warren ⁠
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