What Is A Southern Maidenhair Fern? Southern maidenhair fern is a delicate, sprawling fern that requires specific growing conditions to do well. Also called Venus maidenhair fern or Venus hair fern, ...

Ferns are these beautiful plants that reproduce using spores and lack seeds or flowers. They can be grown indoors and outside ...

Water ferns regularly to keep soil consistently moist but never soggy, checking every few days for dryness. Water deeply at the base of the plant until moisture drains through, and use mulch to help ...

Ordinarily, once a fern's leaf fronds have died, the plant has no further use for them. Such is not the case with the Cyathea rojasiana fern, though – a scientist has discovered that its dead fronds ...

The tassel fern offers rare beauty, form and texture in the landscape, and homeowners with a woodland garden should put this at the top of their list. Mention landscape ferns and most of us think ...

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 ...

The "button" term comes from the fact people perceive the leaflets' shape as somewhat roundish, as they alternate along the ...

In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients. By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the ...

The understory of our forests is graced with lots of ferns in a variety of shapes and sizes. Ferns (along with trees and wildflowers) are classified as vascular plants, meaning that they all have ...