If you have ever crushed the fronds of this plant, you will smell the fragrance of freshly mowed hay that emits from them...

Ferns grab the attention of the beholder of their beauty, no matter what landscape they grace, and the Cinnamon Fern [Osmunda cinnamomea] is no exception...

The fern is in a species of over 20,000 plants classified in the division of Pteridophyta or Filicophyta...

Ferns are best grown in a chiefly organic potting setting similar to the soil in the biological environment...

The 2004 Perennial Plant of the Year was Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’ or Japanese Painted Fern and this plant deserves to be in all shade gardens...