With their soft unfurling fronds, ferns are fabulous. In fact, we love them so much, we’ve filled our new Evolution Garden with them. But how much do you know about one of the earliest plants to ...
The resilient, low-maintenance plant with a primordial pedigree (250mn years) is being reappreciated for its ability to temper, texture and ‘add oomph’ — especially in winter ...
One way to identify ferns is by the shape, arrangement and location of their “sori” — small clusters of spore-producing structures found on the undersides of fern leaves, best viewed with a hand lens.
Packing pine needles into the crown will protect against temperatures down to minus 4C, but below that you’ll need to secure several layers of horticultural fleece over the crown and fronds ...
The fronds are the biggest on earth - they can get to eight metres long! The most common way to propagate ferns is from spores, but that's tricky for the isolated King Ferns, because its spores ...
Amid the common broadleaved vegetation, tall plants—the flying spider-monkey tree fern and the spiny tree fern—hold up question-mark-shaped “croziers” at the ends of their young fronds to greet us as ...
Evergreen ferns are priceless gems in a winter garden. During summer, it’s easy to take our subtly variegated green backcloth of leaves for granted but we come to crave it during the long ...