There are a couple of easy ways to increase the number of ferns in your garden. You can wait for them to grow and then divide them, which works well as some ferns spread more quickly than others.

Although rain is the most important agent in airborne biological particle deposition most of the current sampling traps retain palynomorphs (fern spore, fungal spore, pollen, among others) but are ...

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 ...

Deer-resistant and shade-loving, ferns add a whimsical allure to any garden. As one of the oldest plant groups on Earth, these hardy greens can survive just about anything—as long as their environment ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

Back in the Middle Ages, and well into the 16th century, there was considerable confusion regarding the way plants worked, along with just about everything else. Plants — that is, all plants — were ...

Don't put away your seed flats and potting soil just yet. It's time to go on a spore hunt. Spores are a most useful catch if you want to plant ferns in quantity. But you'll have to be patient. Keep ...

Q: Enclosed is a sample of what has infected two of my beautiful ferns. I’m afraid it’s going to kill them if I don’t control it right away. No one has been able to help me. Please tell me what to do.

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...

The perispore structure of Elaphoglossum was studied using a scanning electron microscope. Of the species examined, 119 corresponded to those used in a previously published phylogenetic analysis of ...

There is something otherworldly about ferns. Their fronds suggest feathers and wings, and so when looking at them you may think of taking flight, most likely into the pre-historic past when they ...