Sweet Fern adds grace and quiet beauty to the sunny, dry garden with its soft, fern-like leaves and delicate branching.  Mildly fragrant, this beautiful, adaptable shrub establishes easily and colonizes in most soil conditions.
 
     Try a row of Sweet Fern along a driveway or as a border to a native plant garden. It also works well as a stabilizer and in sandy soils, along woodland edges and along hell strips and other areas with poor soil.
 
     Companion plants include Hazelnut, Little Bluestem, New Jersey Tea, Black Huckleberry and Virginia Rose.
 
     Sweet Fern is a larval host for the Gray Hairstreak butterfly and Apple Sphinx and other moth species.  Northern Flickers feed on the burr-like, fall fruits.