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 ...

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.

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 ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 74, No. 11 (Nov., 1987), pp. 1706-1708 (3 pages) Several alcohols and other solvents inhibit germination of spores of the fern, Onoclea sensibilis L. The inhibition is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fern reproduction is so mysterious it remained wrapped in mystery and magic until the middle of the 19th century. The reason is that – unlike all other plants – ferns don’t flower and therefore ...

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 ...

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, ...