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 ...

Dryopteris wallichiana is an outstandingly hardy fern, with upright stems covered in brown-black bristly hairs. When the low sun of late autumn and winter slants through it, the contrast between the ...

Those pesky, dim-lit, dark corners of your garden needn't remain barren — you can fill them with perennial ferns for an instant dose of calm and tranquility! Being forest dwellers, ferns are naturally ...

If you believe, as I do, that the most deeply satisfying gardens are ones not of flowers alone but of form and line, of texture and shades of green, then have I got a plant for you. The fern is primal ...

Along a rural stretch of State Road 100 in Putnam County, heavy machinery rumbles across swaths of land, downing scrawny trees and dragging them by the bunch to a chipper. Seconds later, that machine ...