Hardy ferns are great plants as a group to add in any landscape. For the most part they are easy to grow and will give you years of enjoyment. Generally speaking we do think of hardy ferns as plants ...

The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) has selected Japanese painted fern, cultivar ‘Pictum,’ as the 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year. Though the plant is petite in size, Japanese painted fern provides ...

Ever look around your yard and feel like something is missing? Sometimes, it’s just the right perennial that can make all the ...

What are plant choices for shade areas? Among annuals, consider fibrous begonia with bronze foliage, tuberous begonia with large colorful flowers, coleus, and impatiens. Fuchsia is a good choice for a ...

On these rejuvenating spring mornings, I like to sit on the weathered cedar bench in my small woodland garden, a cup of coffee warming my hands, and watch the wildflowers and ferns unfurl. It’s a ...

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 ...

Ferns are some of the most primitive and oldest plants on earth, having existed for over 300 million years. They don’t produce flowers and they reproduce from spores rather than seeds. In the spring ...

Often overlooked as simple groundcovers and fillers, feathery ferns are the star of the show in this New York garden. At present, Rocky Hills is a showplace for fiddleheads underfoot. But before 1990, ...