Spring is a busy season in the garden. While you're getting your hands dirty, be sure to keep your perennials healthy by ...

Other shade-tolerant ornamental grasses to plant alongside hardy ferns include river oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) and bottle brush grass (Elymus hystrix). The unique texture and vibrant shades ...

Ferns are hardy, often the first to pierce lava fields ... what the spike was all about,” says University of Florida plant evolutionary biologist Emily Sessa. The halcyon days of this mini-Cretaceous ...

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...

Fortunately, there are several shade-loving perennials that not only thrive ... These plants blend beautifully with hostas, ferns and grasses, creating a lush, layered look. Among these, a few ...