Love ferns for your native garden but you worry about how big they get? If that is the only worry you have in your garden world, you’re in pretty good shape! Rest assured that even this small worry is easily solved with this much smaller statured fern that is still tough enough to thrive in shade areas. At only 6 to 8″ tall, Hairy Lip Fern forms a dense, compact, spreading mound that is enhanced by its delictely textured, olive-green fronds. When grouped, this small space wonder is a perfect landscape respite for small landscape critters and is a deer resistant, easy care dream that will even tolerate drought conditions and still look spectacular.