Since fern fronds will be appearing soon, I'd like to introduce you to three species: maidenhair, sensitive, and ostrich fern.

Native to the northeast, ostrich ferns fill shady spots with lush greenery through summer and fall. In winter, the still-standing brown fronds look like feathers stuck in the snow, a nice ...

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, borders ...

Fronds from 24 to 36 inches. Foliage changes from bluish green to cinnamon brown. Spreads slowly. Ostrich fern ( Matteuccia struthiopteris ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 34, No. 146 (September 1983), pp. 1108-1116 (9 pages) Experiments were conducted in a gas exchange system to examine the effect of a water stress, induced by —200 ...

A happy ostrich fern tends to be an invasive ostrich fern. I do love their fiddleheads, though, and always collect a hundred or so for cooking in early summer as the fronds unfold.

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 ...

Ferns — these ancient, feathery wonders — bring an unmatched sense of grace, mystery and lush texture to any shaded garden. These fascinating plants, with their delicate fronds and rich ...

What are they? The coil-shaped greens are the unopened young fronds of the ostrich fern, and they're in season until around June.

All fern leaves develop from fiddleheads in the spring, but Sundue was quick to point out that the ostrich fern is the only fern from which humans harvest the fiddleheads.