Ferns are often valued for their beauty and ability to soften outdoor spaces, creating a little corner of peace wherever they are planted. Unlike other ornamental plants, many ferns thrive in filtered ...

Propagating ferns is a simple process, and if you time it correctly, you can guarantee a burst of fresh growth to help fill out your new plants.

Learn how to grow and care for ferns so you can enjoy their lush ambiance in your garden year after year. Ferns are easy to grow, low-maintenance, and long-lived. Loved for their dramatic and textured ...

Darla Harris called herself an "out-and-out fern nut" back when she had 30 ferns at her Magnolia home. She amped up her gardening hobby by joining the Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society, which had just ...

Take a stroll in almost any natural area that is shady and moist, and you are almost guaranteed to see ferns. The woods can be carpeted with these lovely native plants. They grow along streams, are ...

Almost every garden has a shady area that influences the kinds of plants that will grow there. Many people consider these areas a problem, but they actually provide the opportunity to grow an ...

Florida has the widest variety of ferns in the continental U.S. (only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have more), and 123 of these are native to the state. Gardening with ferns is relatively easy given the ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...