Ferns can struggle in the heat of late summer. Keep them looking fresh with these tips.

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. During ...

Fascinated by ferns? Here's how the plants get their start and how the Hardy Fern Foundation and its partners have built ...

The plants seem to divide labor to maximize the health of their colonies that grow up the sides of trees. By Elizabeth Preston K.C. Burns’s favorite research days are the ones where he puts on his ...

Boundary walls in Goa are usually made of local laterite. This is iron rich compacted earth that hardens on exposure to air, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have described six species of ferns new to science from the tropical forests of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, all in the genus ...

The oldest plants on earth serve as modest ballasts in floral arrangements, as well as in life. By Ligaya Mishan LONG BEFORE THERE were flowers, the world was green. The first plants appeared some 500 ...

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 ...

You walk in planning to purchase a bag of potting soil and, bewitched by green magic, walk out carrying a pear tree, blueberry bush, hydrangea hedge, carrot seeds, soaker hose and a new line of credit ...