Guwahati, March 5: The days of flowers “bending over backwards” in bouquets will soon be over. Thanks to leatherleaf fern, the most sought after fern for flower arrangements in the world. Each bouquet ...

PIERSON — On some chilly winter nights, Jimmy Braddock is thankful for a little wind. A light breeze can help keep frost off leatherleaf ferns when the temperature hovers near the freezing point. And ...

To many, ferns are simply the decorative greens that provide background for cut flowers. But to the workers and owners of Florida`s ferneries, the feathery fronds often mean lumbago and sleepless ...

So many of us have the wrong impression of ferns, including me, who thought that giant staghorns weren't really ferns but some sort of epiphyte more closely related to bromeliads or tillandsia. Wrong, ...

Leather-leaf. Maidenhair. Five-finger fern. Their names evoke a sense of other-worldliness, as if one might expect to find them in the forests of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, but they’re right here on the ...