This Shade Lover Adds Great Color!Athyrium Burgundy Lace, Athyrium niponicum ‘Burgundy Lace’, is a show stopper fern with its contrasting leaves of silvery green and purple midribs. ‘Burgundy Lace’ is a great addition of lovely color to a shade garden. With its graceful fern-like foliage, this plant will add texture to any shaded landscape, and makes a wonderful counterpoint to flowering perennials.This plant grows best in moist, highly organic soil and is very striking when planted in groups, along borders or in containers. ‘Burgundy Lace’ is a hardy fern that grows best in humus-rich, moist soil but will also adapt to tough conditions. It is tolerant of clay soils, hot summers, and frigid winters.Divide plants in spring.* Silvery Fern Leaves with Purple MidRibs* Tolerant of Cold, Heat, Clay Soils* Full to Part Shade .