Resurrection fern

Ferns are wonderful moisture loving houseplants. Here are several easy-to-find ferns and how to take care of them in your home. Included are plants that we often call ferns, but are not true ferns.

Resurrection Fern on a live oak branch, Charleston, SC I googled Resurrection Fern to see what words of wisdom I could share about this lovely green treat that springs to life on the branches of the live oak trees and discovered it had it's own song by Iron & Wine: Resurrection Fern Iron & Wine In our days we will live Like our ghosts will live... Pitching glass at the cornfield crows And folding clothes Like stubborn boys across the road We'll keep everything... Grandma's gun and the black…

Pleopeltis polypodioides var. michauxiana (Resurrection fern)

Not many plants are more low-maintenance than a resurrection fern (Polypodium...

Resurrection ferns dried and hydrated. Resurrection fern (Pleopeltis michauxiana) and tropical resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides) While I'd seen spare populations of resurrection ferns when I lived in Maryland, I really became aware of them when I read "Light a Distant Fire," an historic novel about Osceola and the Seminoles by Lucia St. Clair Robson. She wrote about how the scouts could disappear into the ferns on the live oak branches. After we moved to Florida, I came to see how…

The Incredible Feat of a Resurrection Plant — In Defense of Plants

Learn more about Pleopeltis polypodioides, an epiphytic fern that grows on the surface of live oaks and other trees in the South. #gardenideas #gardening #oaktrees #resurrectionfern #southerngardening #southernliving

Hiking Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park provides a short, fun hike with hills and a boardwalk through a lush area of ferns.

Resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides var. michauxiana), formerly Polypodium polypodioides, of the Polypody (Polypodiaceae) family is an evergreen fern that occasionally appears to die in per…