Ferns like composted soil that is rich and dark, so if you are planting a fern in your rock garden, you may have to add special soil to get it to thrive. These plants also respond well to liquid ...

Besides shady forest areas, as at this station, ferns can also grow in crevices in rock faces, in acid environments such as bogs and swamps and as epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — on ...

Polypodium is a fun little fern also called rock polypody or polypodium vulgare ... an interesting woodland or riparian specimen in the garden. A common variety of fern, the polypody is an ...

Ferns aren’t any better preserved in the fossil record than other types of plants, and so their explosion in abundance in the centuries following the asteroid’s impact suggests that “something about ...

Florida has the widest variety of ferns in the continental U.S. (only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have more), and 123 of these are native to the state. Gardening with ferns is relatively easy given the ...