Our fern story starts in the mid-1970s, when Charlsie Urquhart, a longtime counselor at Clear Lake High School in Houston, gave my grandmother, Irene Cauley, a “pup” cut from her maturing ...

I didn’t want the staghorn fern, but the thought of owning one made my husband, Tom, so happy. On the way to our friend’s house to pick it up, he bounced in the passenger seat like a child ...

Staghorn ferns grow in massive colonies where individual plants contribute different jobs. This may make them “eusocial,” like ants or termites.

Mounting a staghorn fern. By Dora Galitzki, New York Times April 25, 2001. Staghorn ferns (Platycerium species) are epiphytes, plants that hold on to tree trunks or branches.

A question for Dan Gill: A dear friend gave me a staghorn fern four or five years ago, and it now seems to have fallen on hard times.The round ball out of which the antlers grow seems to be ...

Q: My 20-year-old staghorn fern has developed brown powdery areas on the undersides of the leaves. What do I use to get rid of this? — B.B., Houston A: Staghorn fern produces basal or sterile ...

Q: Our 50-year-old staghorn fern is slowly dying. It is in the same location, in the shade facing north. We feed it occasionally with Miracle- Gro and a banana peel and spray lightly every few ...

Distinct, relatively easy to care for and easy to make yourself, staghorn ferns affixed to a wooden surface are a 20-minutes-or-less DIY project that costs less than $30. Advertisement.

Why did a fern, of all things, fill her with fear? By Miya Lee For two decades, Julie Buckner Armstrong would walk into the street to avoid the staghorn ferns that thrived in her Florida ...

Otto von Bismarck, the powerful diplomatic deal-maker of 19th century Europe, is famously quoted as saying that politics is “the art of the possible.” Horticulture, by contrast, could… ...

Staghorn ferns (Platycerium species) are epiphytes, plants that hold on to tree trunks or branches. They have two kinds of fronds: flat, roundish sterile ones that turn brown and papery as they ...