In our area, the time to prepare beds for planting ferns is in the spring since all but the hardiest species die back in our ...

Ferns might lack flowers, but they're great plants for a shady spot. Many are evergreen and most have intricately cut leaves that are as beautiful as any bloom. Which? Gardening magazine grew a range ...

"We are literally having to go into people's gardens and remove this beautiful purple plant from their gardens to stop the spread into nature." Boxthorn, field horsetail, smilax and German ivy are ...

Of all the plants we enjoy today in our gardens and in the wild, ferns are some of the most ancient. They are one of the oldest groups of plants on Earth, with a fossil record dating back more than ...

This fern is native to the rainforest, where it grows between tree branches. (It's naturally an epiphyte, which is an organism that grows on the surface of another plant.) There, its fronds often ...

It usually has branches. The horsetail genus, found around the world, might have been present 300 million years ago. Equisetum may, in fact, be one of the world's oldest living groups of vascular ...