Learn how to care for button fern and you'll be rewarded with a beautiful evergreen houseplant that will be a stunning addition to your interior schemes.

Most ferns like shade but a few will tolerate more sun. The dabbled shade provided by tree branches provide the best conditions. Think about how they grow in the forest and try to mimic their ...

Plant Primer: Rabbit's foot fern is easy to grow indoors. The plant is shallow-rooted and grows best in bright sunlight.

The fern’s leaf remnants were brown and withered — dead, by all appearances (though still attached at their base to the tree fern’s trunk). How could lifeless plant matter be endowed with ...

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.

Now the first full tree fern genome has been successfully sequenced—that of the flying spider-monkey tree fern—hinting at how these peculiar plants accrued such a massive set of genes.

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.