Ferns can provide great texture, color, shape and size to your shade garden. The prehistoric flora can be found year-round and these are some must-have species.

Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a great option for colonizing a filtered shade garden. The plant has a vase shape. The tall sterile fronds are bright green and upright and resemble ...

Although their large, ostrich-plumelike fronds make a striking accent plant in a smaller garden, 3-to-5-foot-tall ostrich ferns are breathtaking when massed in shady woodland areas, ...

The native ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) always tops Ms. Weinstein’s list, she said, calling it “majestic” — although it may be too rambunctious in the garden, except in ...

The Victorians were mad about ferns and swarmed over the countryside to dig up unusual ferns for transplanting in their shade gardens. Ferns dominated the planet about 345 million years ago, and ...

Because of this, you should plant ostrich ferns on purpose, if you want to grow your own fiddleheads, or learn how to properly identify the species if you plan to harvest from the wild.

On these rejuvenating spring mornings, I like to sit on the weathered cedar bench in my small woodland garden, a cup of coffee warming my hands, and watch the wildflowers and ferns unfurl.

Visiting a fern garden on a hot summer day, can make one feel cooler. It does not matter if it is a mass of ferns or just ferns that are mingled among your other shade-loving plants like brunnera ...

But spreading ferns doesn't have to be a bad thing. In the never-ending search for ground cover, ostrich ferns, (though tall) can serve as a nice ground cover, especially on the north side of a house.

Local news promotes a healthy democracy - Support Today for $1. Fiddlehead ferns perform in shady gardens and bright kitchens . Updated: ; Jun. 18, 2010, 10:22 a.m ...

Ferns aren’t only the standard, mid-height plants you see in typical home gardens, but range from 2- to 3-foot tall to even taller Cinnamon ferns (Osmunda cinnamomea) to bright green 3-plus-foot ...