You cannot have too many ferns in a shady garden – or any sort of garden. I don't mean the good old ostrich ferns that rampage around mercilessly. I mean all those gorgeous collectible ferns and the ...

Native ferns, which poke in clumps through leaf-carpeted woodland floors and spread along lush stream banks, might be just the plants to add interest to uninspired shady corners. The tough American ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new Athyrium species, A. crassicaule J. P. Roux (Woodsiaceae), is described from the Drakensberg in Lesotho and South Africa. A key to the ...

One doesn’t always think of ferns and Inland Northwest gardening in the same idea. Our climate isn’t anything like the West Side of the state, where sword fern can grow to 6 feet tall and other types ...

Discover a selection of the best ferns for containers to provide texture and movement - these are perfect for small gardens, ...

WHEN MILLER BOTANICAL GARDEN curator Richie Steffen wrote his first book, he fittingly co-authored it with the woman who turned him into a fern fanatic. Sue Olsen founded the Hardy Fern Foundation, ...

A new species of fern found by botanists surveying a remote East Maui area was announced and described in a recent research article. The fern named Athyrium haleakalae “is uniquely adapted to survive ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We measured aboveground biomass allocation and resorption of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the fronds of a winter-deciduous fern Athyrium ...

Some live in water; others grow on trees. In 400 million years, these versatile plants have developed some surprising variations. By Margaret Roach If you want suggestions of ferns to use as ground ...