Winter gardening can often feel like a daunting task, especially when the vibrant colors and lush greenery of other seasons fade away. Many gardeners find themselves struggling to maintain their ...

Ferns, Mosses and Forest Plants -Back by popular demand, Saturday, August 18, 9:00 am – 10:30 am Join Helen Hamilton to look for summer forest plants, ferns and mosses, on a short trail in Freedom ...

I recently visited a beautiful preserve up north in Putnum County. Fern Cliff Nature Preserve, located near Greencastle, consists of 157 acres of deep, wooded ravines and steep, sandstone cliffs. The ...

In a past column I featured many of the locations where cliffs and bluffs can be found in Indiana. While the limestone and sandstone that form these natural features usually generate the most ...

Even in this super-colorful springtime, let’s slow down to appreciate a handful of peculiar, often underappreciated oddities ...

Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an exciting new research frontier in the global challenge of protecting crops from the threat of disease. Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an ...

Moss is proof that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Some gardeners are more concerned with how to get rid of moss, seeing it as an unsightly nuisance in the same category as mold. Other ...

Common names of plants can be deceptive. For most people, this is not really an issue, but for the few uptight, botanical know-it-alls among us, common names can be a little annoying. We find it ...

They dominated the earth for 200 million years and numerous different species can still be found all over the world: mosses, horsetails and ferns. Researchers have now found out that bracken ferns do ...

Join Helen Hamilton to look for summer forest plants, ferns and mosses, on a short trail in Freedom Park. The Historic Rivers Chapter of Virginia Master Naturalists was involved in developing a path ...