The mimosa tree is beautiful and drought tolerant, with airy pink blossoms and fern-like green leaves. Here’s how to grow one ...

Ferns are one of the most useful and diverse groups of plants for shady areas, and now is a great time to plant them. Many species of hardy ferns are suitable for planting in Louisiana landscapes.

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 ...

A few, including aspleniums except the birds nest fern, would prefer this mix: 1 part tree fern fiber (1-2 inches long); 1 part soil conditioner (finely ground pine bark); 1 part course, sharp ...

This plant is shallow-rooted and stores water in the rhizomes. Rabbit’s foot ferns grow best in bright, filtered sunlight and when the soil is kept moist (letting the top few inches dry out ...

Button ferns are relatively slow-growing, making them very easy to care for houseplants. For this reason, repotting is only needed every few years, once the roots grow out of the drainage holes.

This tree fern is found in a soggy area of the Fortuna Forest Reserve, which is drenched by more than 20 feet of rain a year. The rain leaches the sandy, volcanic soil, draining it of nitrogen and ...

Plant pick: Himalayan maidenhair fern Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:01am Life What: Himalayan maidenhair fern, also known as adiantum venustum, features delicate fronds and an airy appearance.

Li's team found that the palm tree–shaped fern has more than six billion DNA base pairs, a billion more than the average genome for flowering plants (humans, by comparison, have about three ...