On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...

There are many ferns native to our Illinois gardens, all ready to add textural contrast for bold-foliaged perennials or linear sedges. Adiantum pedatum, commonly called Northern maidenhair fern, is ...

As the daylight hours of summer are more abundant and the days sunny and hot, allow yourself to drift into a tropical setting in a green and peaceful spot in the yard with a planting of native ferns.

If you believe, as I do, that the most deeply satisfying gardens are ones not of flowers alone but of form and line, of texture and shades of green, then have I got a plant for you. The fern is primal ...

Identifying ferns is a different process than, say, identifying wildflowers or trees. They don't display flowers, showy fruits or bark patterns. What they do display are seemingly endless arrays of ...