Tidying up your plant will help it thrive in the springtime. 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 ...

Whether you should be pruning plants in the fall or spring is an eternal puzzle for gardeners, and ferns, with a wide variety of species that are hardy to the outdoor elements, don't make it easy to ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James Dalling and his colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their dead fronds into roots. The researchers call these ...

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The fern, Cyathea ...