This perennial is leafy and green in the deepest winter—and drought tolerant. Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is a fast-growing native evergreen fern that is green and lush throughout the ...

My first introduction to the Christmas fern came at a garden club flower-arranging workshop. Everyone brought greens from their gardens to supplement a “supermarket bouquet,” and I was amazed when one ...

The toughest, most low-maintenance fern, the Christmas fern tolerates all kinds of misery—everything from heat and drought and clay and poor soil to repeated transplanting. All it really asks for is ...

I take pleasure in the muted palette of the winter woods: the sepias and silvery-grays of tree bark, the faded ocher of leaves fallen or still clinging on, the soft violet of shadows upon snow. Still, ...

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 ...

As is probably the case with just about everybody, mail order catalogs jam mailboxes when the Christmas season is upon us. Some of the ones we get every year at this time are familiar, but many of ...

Every Christmas, when I was a boy, my family would go to one of my aunt's homes to spend Christmas night with that part of our family. Now, I did like my aunt, but I had not had enough time to really ...

Pines and spruces steal all the glory this time of year, dominating the holiday scene with their twinkling lights and glittering ornaments. If they were Hollywood stars, the trees would be Brad and ...

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