Your recieve a capsule containing tiny fresh spores! About 30+! Freshness is essential for a high germination rate! We get ours direct from a grower!
  • Origin: Australia and Tasmania
  • Genus: Dicksonia
  • Species: antarctica
  • Common Name: Soft Tree Fern
  • Situation: Full sun to full shade, moist, well-drained soil
  • Eventual height: 6m
  • Eventual spread: 4m
  • Hardiness: Hardy to -10C or lower
  • Skill level: Easy

Few plants offer such riches as the Soft Tree Fern - Dicksonia antartica. It somehow combines the filigree elegance of a fern with the size and presence of a tree and lends an air of the primordial forest wherever it is planted. Seen in silhouette, from above or beneath, it stops you dead in your tracks and takes your breath away. Dicksonia antarctica has proved to be the easiest of the treeferns to cultivate - plenty of water to keep the trunk moist being the most important thereafter a position out of the wind and dappled shade will help keep it looking tiptop.