Cut a healthy stem from your fern, using clean sterilised scissors or secateurs so as not to introduce infection. Cut just ...

Propagating ferns from spores is a delightful process, but requires a fair bit of time. If you're looking for instant gratification, propagating from rhizome is an easier way—although plants may ...

Many fern species arrived much later, Sundue said, developing alongside flowering plants. It is possible to plant ferns using collected spores.

Several hypotheses have been bandied about to explain the spike. Ferns are hardy, often the first to pierce lava fields, for example, while their spores—which are smaller than dust and capable of ...

Moving through plant lineages, from spore-bearing lycophytes to ferns to flowering plants, reproduction becomes more and more specialized.

Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from ...

Ferns rank as some of the oldest plants of the botanical realm for our global landscape. Evidence concludes these green, feathery foliage friends have been around for more than 70 million years whe… ...

Plants like Boston ferns are great at purifying the air. And ferns of all kinds help scientists study climate change because they’re extra sensitive to temperature and precipitation changes.

Since ferns disperse by tiny spores that are easily carried by the wind to distant locations, non-native ferns planted in a single garden might produce spores that end up developing into plants ...

In keeping with this theme, I present to you a native fern, one which is widespread across the eastern half of the United States, and much of eastern Canada. This is a plant that is a tough guy ...

You likely won't be able to plant small ferns propagated from spores for about a year or two until they're large enough to be transplanted outside—at least three inches long.