By by Pam Woolway - The Garden Island | Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12 a.m. Share this story Delicate lengths of fern frond rise from the edges of shallow streams around Kaua‘i.

With winter turning much of our current nature scenes brown, there is green to be seen on the ground under many bare ...

Plants such as ferns are often closer to their wild ancestors ... The flush of new growth in spring, called fiddleheads, will have a silvery appearance. READ: Where to put your houseplants during ...

THESE are fiddlehead ferns, known in Malay as pucuk paku and, in Cantonese, paku choy. The English name comes from the resemblance to the coiled tops of fiddles or violins. Essentially ...