Plant Finder Features How It Works Pricing Testimonials Blog

The UK's leading eCommerce platform for horticulture businesses.

Product

Features
How It Works
Pricing

Company

About
Blog
Contact

Legal

Twitter LinkedIn

Chile blechnum | Plant Finder | Fill My Garden

Home/Plants/Cacti & Succulents

Plants > Cacti & Succulents

Chile blechnum

Blechnum chilense

★ RHS AGMLow Maintenance

Genus: Blechnum
Family: Blechnaceae
Common Names: Chilean hard fern

About this plant

A robust rhizomatous evergreen fern with dark green, lance-shaped, simply-pinnate fronds to 1.2m in height, the fertile fronds more erect, with narrowly linear pinnae

Growing Information

Height

1-1.5 Metres

Spread

1.5-2.5 Metres

Hardiness

Foliage

Evergreen

Growing Conditions

Sunlight

Full ShadePartial Shade

Soil

LoamSandy

AcidNeutral

Not Currently Available

This plant is not currently stocked at any garden centres on our platform.

Moisture

Poorly DrainedMoist But Well Drained

Aspect

West FacingEast FacingSouth Facing

Exposure

ShelteredExposed

Care Guide

Cultivation

Easy to grow in most cool, moist, shaded sites

Pruning

Dead or damaged fronds may be removed as necessary

Propagation

Propagate by sowing spores (may not come true) in mid to late summer or by division in spring

Pests

Generally pest free outdoors

Diseases

Generally disease free outdoors

Garden Uses

Uses

City CourtyardGround Cover

Planting Places

OutdoorSubmerged Aquatic

Season of Interest

SpringSummerAutumnWinter

Size & Characteristics

Height

1-1.5 Metres

Spread

1.5-2.5 Metres

Habit

Suckering

Time to Full Height

Twenty To Fifty Years