For sheer pop, indoors or out, staghorn ferns (Platycerium spp) can’t be beat. Once considered difficult to grow in San Diego County, staghorn ferns are now commonly found in nurseries, hanging on ...

Hawaiian gardens have long been famous for their vast array of orchids and other showy flowering plants. Ferns on the other hand don’t get top billing in most landscapes even though they were probably ...

Some gardeners ply their plants with sugar and honey. Others coax them along with coffee grinds, used tea leaves, crushed eggshells or even fish heads. Shaun Micallef remembers his aunt feeding ...