Why it’s choice: Sword fern stays green through rain, snow, sleet and dark of night. Also in sun, shade, wet soil, dry places and drought. Ubiquitous and easy to overlook, sword fern is handsome, ...

Along the trail to Trestle Creek Falls, above Brice Creek in southern Lane County, I found a solitary, ancient rock sword fern (Polystichum imbricans). It is a relictual plant, one that has survived ...

WHAT: Sword fern, Polystichum munitum, is one of our most useful native ferns and a staple in the Northwest garden. Sword fern is evergreen and forms a shapely, arching mound. WHY PLANT IT: It is ...

As with so many plant groups, once a gardener stumbles upon ferns (figuratively speaking), there's no turning back. In our abundance of shade from trees and buildings, ferns can add texture, color and ...

The genus Polystichum offers us fine evergreen ferns for our gardens. In addition to our native sword fern (P. munitum) there is the Asian saber fern. Its glossy, deep-green fronds with a dark midrib ...

Arboretum Spotlight: Sword fern (Polystichum munitum) is a California native and thrives in relatively dry shade. RUSS CARMACK The News Tribune This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC ...

Of the many pretty ferns we can grow in our gardens here, one of the nicest ones we can plant is a native one that grows here already. The western sword fern (Polystichum munitum) grows throughout the ...

Walking around my Southeast Portland neighborhood, I can't help but notice all the sad sword ferns. Conventional wisdom used to call for cutting sword ferns (Northwest native Polystichum munitum) to ...