Ferns are a plant group that has existed for nearly 400 million years. So, it's no surprise that there are now an estimated 10,500 species living around the globe. Ferns owe their millennia-long ...

While you can grow asparagus from seed, most of us are going to begin by planting what is known as an asparagus crown.

It was over 5,000 years ago that the ancient Egyptians started bringing plants — most likely ferns and palm trees — indoors ...

Forget birdwatching, fern foraging hikes are the new hot trend in nature exploration! These so-called Pteridomania (fern ...

Christmas ferns, they're just simple woodland shade plants, right? Wrong! Turns out, we’ve been taking this green-leafed plant for granted for quite some time. Said to gain its name from ...

They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the “great fern radiation” of the Cretaceous period, from 145 to 66 million years ago. Like the clubmosses (see Plant ...

Feeding your asparagus fern will help it stay lush and vibrant. Apply a balanced liquid fertilizer diluted to half strength every month during the growing season (spring and summer). Avoid fertilizing ...

Moving through plant lineages, from spore-bearing lycophytes to ferns to flowering plants, reproduction becomes more and more specialized. Indeed, the flower is often diagrammed as the end goal of ...