Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' Vilmorin taking cold into the low

taking cold into the low twenties that would ruin an orange and thriving in a large pot as readily as in the ground

from Mexico and Central America through the Caribbean and into northern South America

modest enough to miss

Many-branched and gnarled

The species honors Carl Ludwig Sprenger

Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' Vilmorin taking cold into the lowThere is a moment in early spring when a new frond of Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance' unfurls, and the sight is one of the more quietly spectacular things a shade garden produces. The emerging fronds are a vivid copper orange, almost metallic in certain light, deepening through pink and bronze before settling into the glossy dark green of maturity. 'Brilliance' is a selected form of the autumn fern chosen specifically for the intensity of that