Winter gardening can often feel like a daunting task, especially when the vibrant colors and lush greenery of other seasons fade away. Many gardeners find themselves struggling to maintain their ...

Find out why one might want a moss garden. While many gardeners combat moss in their yards, Janesville's Rotary Gardens devote an entire garden to moss and ferns. Mark Dwyer explains why moss can ...

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 ...

In a past column I featured many of the locations where cliffs and bluffs can be found in Indiana. While the limestone and sandstone that form these natural features usually generate the most ...

“Ferns are ancient, 400 million years old or so,” said ecologist Lisa Lofland Gould, secretary of the North Carolina Native Plant Society Board and member of the Piedmont Land Conservancy. “They ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

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 ...