What: Japanese painted fern, or eared lady fern, brings amazing and colorful foliage to the shade garden. The silvers and purplish-reds that are overlaid on the fronds brightens any shadowy situation.

Iron deficiency is a common problem when lady ferns are grown as potted plants. The youngest leaves might be light greenish yellow; sometimes, there are additional, dark green, pea-sized blotches.

Lady Fern’s on North Colley, which is dedicated to stocking native plants, harvests rain, composts and re-uses planting containers.

Florida has the widest variety of ferns in the continental U.S. (only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have more), and 123 of these are native to the state. Gardening with ferns is relatively easy given the ...

Mama Monster is the latest in a line of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to have a plant named after them. By Jennifer Exley Lady Gaga Women in Music Red Carpet - P 2012 ...

Unlike flowering plants with few seed pods, ferns shed their dustlike seeds - spores - by the millions. ... is our native Lady Fern with airy, fine-leafed fronds that grow upward 2 to 3 feet, ...

Just call it The Adventures of FernGaga. Lady Gaga is a well-known fan of monsters, but now even plants are getting involved with her army of music and social justice. Botanists at Duke University ...

Lady fern also serves as a host plant to several kinds of caterpillars. Southern Wood Fern This Florida native ( Dryopteris ludoviciana ) goes by several other names, including southern shield ...

Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina), also known as the alpine lady fern, is an uncommon plant in Colorado but can be found in 49 out of 50 states, excluding Hawaii, making it one of the most abundant ...

Most ferns won't spread like wildfire once you plant them. But Lyon warns of the three ferns that will: ostrich fern, bracken fern and hay scented fern. Ostrich fern is the most well known.

Lady Gaga Gets Fern Species Named After Her—Check Out the Resemblance Singer is honored by Duke University botanists, who found similarities between the pop star and the plants By Peter Gicas ...