It seems like just a few weeks ago that I was out in the swamp taking artsy photos of fiddleheads unfurling. Now, when I muck around down there, I'm wading hip-deep through cinnamon ferns. Cinnamon ...

Spring is here. We are being hit from all sides with spring fever, along with what is available to make our garden look better, grow faster and be amazing. But there is no better time of year. One of ...

Ferns are coming up in force these days, now that it’s May and we’ve finally had days – or was it weeks? – of rain. Some of our biggest and most common native ferns, cinnamon fern and interrupted fern ...

FOUND FREQUENTLY in boggy areas from Ontario to Florida and known to reach heights of nearly 6 feet under ideal growing conditions, the native cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomea) is one of the ...

Gadshill: "We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible." Chamberlain. “Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible. Shakespeare, ...

Fiddleheads, so named because of their resemblance to the musical instrument, are the tightly wound, emerging fronds of several species of ferns. Many cultures, including Native American tribes in the ...

I remember one day, while working the Master Gardener hotline, I got a call from a woman who was very upset. The beautiful floral bouquet she received from a loved one was covered in “bugs.” She was ...

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is more than just pitch pines. Countless varieties of flowers and other flora bloom throughout the million-acre expanse, many of them sprouting up through the sandy soil ...

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...