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Artificial Ferns

Four ferns: boston, maidenhair, asparagus and fiddlehead. A boston fern is the one most people picture — full, arching, wide — and that spread is what a fern needs if it is going to fill a corner rather than sit in one. Potted pieces stand on their own; single fronds are for building height into something else. The curled new growth at the crown is the detail that stops a fern looking frozen.

Artificial Ferns

Four ferns: boston, maidenhair, asparagus and fiddlehead. A boston fern is the one most people picture — full, arching, wide — and that spread is what a fern needs if it is going to fill a corner rather than sit in one. Potted pieces stand on their own; single fronds are for building height into something else. The curled new growth at the crown is the detail that stops a fern looking frozen.

Artificial Ferns

Four ferns: boston, maidenhair, asparagus and fiddlehead. A boston fern is the one most people picture — full, arching, wide — and that spread is what a fern needs if it is going to fill a corner rather than sit in one. Potted pieces stand on their own; single fronds are for building height into something else. The curled new growth at the crown is the detail that stops a fern looking frozen.

Choosing well

What to look for in ferns

  • The curled new growth

    A real fern always carries a crozier or two — a young frond still tightly coiled. Its absence is the main reason a faux fern looks frozen rather than growing, and it costs nothing to include.

  • Graduated leaflets

    Leaflets should shrink towards the tip of each frond. Uniform leaflets running the full length read as printed tape, which is exactly how the cheapest ferns are made.

  • Radial, not flat

    Fronds should leave the crown at different angles and different heights. A fern that fans out in a single plane looks like a wall decoration, and it will only work pushed against a wall.

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