Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up of a painted lady fern - Catherine Mcqueen/Getty Images With their bristling leaves in hues of green, purple, and ...

Discover the climbing fern, a rare and unique Ohio plant that stays green through winter. Learn where to find this botanical marvel in southern Ohio.

For the shade gardener who wants to grow edible plants, this shadowy designation of how much—or how little—direct sunlight a space receives is often perceived as second best. “I have a garden, ...

Revive crispy and brown ferns with new, bigger, and better fronds with a simple gardening job that will take minutes.

Q: I grew my potted Boston fern outside this summer, and it did well. Now that it’s been inside for a while, I’m seeing a few dark pellets sprinkled on the table under its fronds. Where are they ...

I covered the evolution of ferns, their place in the general evolution of terrestrial plants and the curious nature of their reproductive cycle. To put it plainly, things got away from me and I didn’t ...

Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern ...

A small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome by more than 50 times. Study co-author Jaume Pellicer, an ...