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 ...

Ferns are among the oldest living plants, with fossil records dating back 383 to 393 million years ago. These plants are resilient and have survived volcanic eruptions and cold climates thanks to ...

Just in time for Christmas, researchers at the University of Vermont Herbarium have discovered a new fern, and they named it ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. All fern leaves develop from fiddleheads in the spring, but the ostrich fern ...

Take a stroll in almost any natural area that is shady and moist, and you are almost guaranteed to see ferns. The woods can be carpeted with these lovely native plants. They grow along streams, are ...

Polystichum hildae, a holly fern discovered in Columbia, is named after a 95-year-old longtime volunteer at UVM. Here's why.

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...

Researchers at the University of Vermont have named a new species of Christmas fern after Hilda White, who has been a ...

According to a research team led by palaeontologists, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times.

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 ...

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...