What's your favorite spring veggie to grow? For many gardeners, common produce such as carrots or asparagus makes the list. But among foragers, there's another beloved veggie that shows up in ...

Ferns are under-rated and largely ignored by gardeners, but should not be. They can add much to a garden. I recently went to Walpole, N.H. where I met with Michael Nerrie of Distant Hill Gardens and ...

It’s a fern, of course. This one is quite common in the Southeast, stretching north into the Ohio River Valley and New England and west to eastern Texas. It grows in rather unspecialized places, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Gadshill: "We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible." Chamberlain: “Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible. — Shakespeare ...

Feb. 1 -- A common fern has been found to soak up extraordinary amounts ofarsenic without any ill effects, potentially offering a natural wayof cleaning up polluted soil and water. The plant, known as ...

Ferns are a vivid symbol of summer in Vermont. They wave with the breeze in the shady woodlands and burst forth in green along the river banks. For those who are interested in taking a good walk and ...

Christmas ferns, they're just simple woodland shade plants, right? Wrong! Turns out, we’ve been taking this green-leafed plant for granted for quite some time. Said to gain its name from pioneers ...