The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina ... you could do worse than try this plant, and you can set these now by taking rosettes and sticking the stem end into the ground behind a spade. It will produce ...

Using new methods, the fossilised plant Furcula granulifer was identified as such an early forerunner. The leaves of this seed fern species already ... showed an unique set of leaf characters ...

There they are, growing with their little leaves, their roots in the ground ... are no “sissy” plants. In keeping with this theme, I present to you a native fern, one which is widespread ...

Place the plants so the crowns (where the trunks and stems meet the roots) are slightly above ground level. You can elevate the crowns 2 to 3 inches in gardens with heavy clay soil and add topsoil ...

Doctoral student Frank Linam explores how wet soil conditions in flooded rice paddies affect the way roots take in nutrients and filter out toxins More than 3 billion people around ... When submerged ...

Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, according to a new study led by Jacob ...

Woodland High School will host its 34th annual FFA Plant Sale 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 3 at the school’s greenhouse, 1500 Dike Access Road. The school’s horticulture students grow the plants as ...

Instead of growing in the ground, many Australian ferns attach themselves to trees (epiphytes) or rocks (lithophytes) and get their nutrients from decaying leaf matter and animal droppings that ...

Adding ferns like Christmas, Maidenhair, Cinnamon, and Japanese Painted can enhance your shade garden. ...

Beneficial soil microbes that live on or around plant roots can provide nutrition, help the plant withstand stress and protect it from pathogenic microbes. In return, the plant secretes a portion ...