Quickly brighten up the darker corners of your garden or the empty spots beneath trees in your yard by growing colorful and ...

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.

The Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill., recently released the results of a 12-year evauation of 26 types of athyrium, the plant genus that includes about 200 species of ferns. Of those evaluated, ...

English ivy creeps all over the place, and pachysandra patches repeat in every yard as if they were spit out by a cosmic photocopier. But ferns, with their elegant fronds and varieties that come in ...