With their bristling leaves in hues of green, purple, and silver, ferns are a great landscaping choice for adding texture and foliage in your yard. There are so many varieties of ferns to pick from, ...
These elegant fronds will fill your garden with color and texture. Water ferns regularly to keep soil consistently moist but never soggy, checking every few days for dryness. Water deeply at the base ...
Often overlooked as simple groundcovers and fillers, feathery ferns are the star of the show in this New York garden. At present, Rocky Hills is a showplace for fiddleheads underfoot. But before 1990, ...
How did the Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) come by its common name? Perhaps because its evergreen nature makes it ideal for use in holiday decorations. Or maybe it’s the shape of its ...
THESE practical hints on collecting, drying, and mounting plants will prove of real service to young botanists. The author recognises the improvement in the teaching of botany which has taken place in ...
It's easy to see why ferns and hostas are staples in many American gardens. They're generally easy to care for, and they're perfect for adding more texture to nearly any space. Because both plants are ...
Plants and the animals that eat them have evolved together in fascinating ways, creating a dynamic interplay of survival strategies. Many plants have developed physical and chemical defenses to fend ...
Belying the popular notion of ferns as delicate, lacy relics surmounted by the evolution of flowering plants, biologists have presented evidence for a much different scenario. Arlington, Va. -- ...
Plants and the animals that eat them have evolved together in fascinating ways, creating a dynamic interplay of survival strategies. Many plants have developed physical and chemical defenses to fend ...