Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the more delightful things to watch for in spring is the annual unfurling of the ferns. They seem to suddenly appear, all ...

Every spring for millions of years, the woodland has witnessed the phenomenon of ferns unfurling their fronds, finger by finger, as they seek to touch the sun. This might be the spring in which they ...

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 ...

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 ...