Many gardeners today are interested in native plants because their blossoms provide food for pollinators. However, nonblooming plants are also essential for native habitats. Plants such as ferns are ...

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Few people can say that there is a plant is named after them. Hilda White — a 95-year-old, long-time volunteer at the University of Vermont's Pringle Herbarium — is one of the lucky individuals who ...

After a short respite of warm weather, the first week of 2025′s winter has now turned cold. Our current brown outside world is interspersed with patches of back yard green grass but they too will ...

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green plants on the forest floor this time of year, other than young conifers. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dark green fronds of Christmas fern. (Greg Hanisek/For Hearst Connecticut Media) Have you ever been out on a winter walk when ...

Hilda White at the University of Vermont's Pringle Herbarium, where she's volunteered for nearly three decades. Twice a week for the past three decades, Hilda White has spent hours carefully ...

Don’t prune Black Eyed Susans, sunflowers, or ornamental grasses—they add winter interest. Mums, geraniums, and Christmas ferns stay colorful or green, so no trimming is needed. Wait until spring to ...