Once you know how to grow ferns you will appreciate how these versatile plants can add texture, form, and movement to a range of areas in the garden. Whether delicate and feathery, with gently ...

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 ...

Ferns make great plants for a shady spot in the garden. Discover our best varieties and how to grow them Adele DyerPrincipal researcher & writer Adele has worked in gardening for 25 years. She grows a ...

Almost every garden is likely to have a shady area that influences the kinds of plants that will grow there. Many people consider these areas a problem, when, in fact, they provide the opportunity to ...

Ferns are an ancient plant that have been gracing our earth with their feathery fronds for a long, long time. They make a great addition to landscaping since they can fill out thinly planted areas and ...

Ferns are truly ancient specimens that nowadays make fantastic low-maintenance perennial plants for backyards. There are thousands of species of evergreen and deciduous types and fern fronds are a ...

THERE is a small fern thriving in the mortar between the bricks of my back door steps, yet the fern I’ve got growing in a big terracotta pot looks quite sad. It’s not that the pot fern is dying – in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Hardy ferns are great plants as a group to add in any landscape. For the most part they are easy to grow and will give you years of enjoyment. Generally speaking we do think of hardy ferns as plants ...

So many of us have the wrong impression of ferns, including me - I thought that giant Staghorns weren't really ferns but some sort of epiphyte more closely related to bromeliads or tillandsia. Wrong, ...

When someone mentions ferns, is the first image that comes to mind that of dainty plants with ornate leaves sometimes in unusual colours? What if someone told you that some ferns can grow as tall as ...