All news items that are sent to us are put on the BPS News Box on the right hand margin of the Home page. This is the archive of all the News Items we have received. Please send us anything ferny that catches your eye.
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| A Zoom talk for Lonon Natural History Society, "Identifying Britain's Ferns", by James Merrweather is planned for 2 June 2022. Talks are usually 45 minutes, with 15 minutes Q&A at the end. Open to anyone, not limited to LNHS members | 2021/08/22 | |
| Identifying Britain's ferns and lycophytes by David Hill (youtube.com) | 2021/08/22 | |
| Swiss Pteridological Society website (English version) | 2021/08/19 | |
| A random program decided that Bridget Laue was the winner of the Fern Hardiness Project for her entry of Woodwardia fimbriata | 2021/08/01 | |
| Between 1876 and 1880, Col. Jones created a series of nature prints of ferns, over 300 of which were distributed to each of the subscribers. Under 40 sets were produced, but the BPS archive also holds many prints of alternative fern varieties that were never distributed. The subscribers were chiefly members of the recently disbanded first BPS. | 2021/07/23 | |
| In 2015, BBC Earth travelled to the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, high in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains in Mexico. There they discovered a world of wildlife unlike anything elsewhere in the world (bbc.co.uk) See also these articles | 2021/07/16 | |
| Ferns take the award for best display in the Plant Heritage zone at the #RHSHamptonCourt Garden Festival. | 2021/07/02 | |
| Nick Bailey visits Kew Gardens to explore their collection of ferns (starts at 06:45) | 2021/07/02 | |
| These ferns may be the first plants known to share work like ants (ScienceNews) | 2021/06/08 | |
| Response of hardy ferns to drought stress (sciforum.net) | 2021/05/23 | |
| This 8 year collaborative project aims to publish for the first time a fully illustrated and DNA barcoded fern flora for Honduras | 2021/05/12 | |
| Ferns for the Vivarium from Dartfrog | 2021/02/28 | |
| Regional Group Newsletters, published quarterly | 2021/02/24 | |
| Diphasiastrum ×issleri (Lycopodiaceae) in England and Wales (britishandirishbotany.org) | 2021/02/17 | |
| Tree ferns are older than dinosaurs. And that’s not even the most interesting thing about them (weforum.org) | 2020/12/29 | |
| Azolla once pulled trillions of tons of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. Does this ancient, unassuming plant have more tricks up its sleeve? (earthisland.org) | 2020/12/23 | |
| Helechos y licofitas del centro de la Argentina by M.D. Arana & C.A. Bianco | 2020/12/07 | |
| BPS Photographic Competition 2021 | 2020/11/26 | |
| Find out what the soil type is for where you live (England only) | 2020/11/20 | |
| Help collect data on the cultivation of drought-tolerant Cheilanthes and Pellaeas | 2020/11/19 | |
| Fern Stamps of the World (stampsoftheworld.co.uk) | 2020/10/30 | |
| Monitoring methods for the threatened Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum Willd.) in Ireland (npws.ie) | 2020/10/30 | |
| Natural History Museum Digital Herbarium - ferns (data.nhm.ac.uk) | 2020/10/20 | |
| What can lycophytes teach us about plant evolution and development? Modern perspectives on an ancient lineage (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) | 2020/09/11 | |
| Stenogrammitis myosuroides (Polypodiaceae): a new addition to the European flora from southwest Ireland (britishandirishbotany.org) See also | 2020/09/05 | |
| The BPS Story (ebps.org.uk) | 2020/08/15 | |
| Name changes to the Alpine Lady-fern (ebps.org.uk) | 2020/08/12 | |
| A botanical excursion to the Montaña Roja nature reserve, El Medano, Tenerife (tenerifenaturewalks.wordpress.com) | 2020/08/06 | |
| Simple and Divided Leaves in Ferns: Exploring the Genetic Basis for Leaf Morphology Differences in the Genus Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae) (mdpi.com) | 2020/07/29 | |
| The Ferns of Macaronesia (fernsofmacaronesia.org.uk) | 2020/07/12 | |
| Actinostachys minuta, a new species of grass fern from Mindanao, Philippines (phytokeys.pensoft.net) | 2020/06/19 | |
| Ceratopteris shingii (Pteridaceae). A New Species of Ceratopteris with Creeping Rhizomes from Hainan, China (novataxa.blogspot.com) | 2020/06/19 | |
| Flora of New Zealand; Ferns and Lycophytes (nzflora.info) | 2020/06/14 | |
| Flora of Australia Volume 48 Ferns, Gymnosperms and Allied Groups | 2020/06/12 | |
| Plant Heritage appoint BPS Member Ian Unsworth as a new National Plant Collection holder | 2020/06/11 | |
| Get involved in making Cyanotypes | 2020/06/11 | |
| Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns 1853 by Anna Atkins and Anne Dixon | 2020/06/02 | |
| The Guernsey Fern by Nigel Gee, Report and Transactions 1994, Volume XXIII, Part IV published by La Société Guernesiaise, Guernsey | 2020/06/02 | |
| Ferns (and Dinosaurs) on 50p Coins (legal tender) (royalmint.com) | 2020/06/01 | |
| Gentle giants: fall for exotic tree ferns (theguardian.com) | 2020/05/30 | |
| Ophioglossum vulgatum recorded at Chilbolton Cow Common SSSI, Hampshire (twitter.com) | 2020/05/15 | |
| The Yorkshire Fern Group has been actively involved in monitoring the ancient royal fern and the huge colony of marsh fern at Askham Bog | 2020/05/13 | |
| Governor Laffan’s Fern replanting hit by storm, Bermuda (royalgazette.com) | 2020/05/01 | |
| BPS Coronavirus update | 2020/03/11 | |
| Episode 129: otl sowalong part one - growing ferns from spores | 2020/02/29 | |
| Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of Rebio Uatumã – Central Amazon | 2020/02/29 | |
| Britain's Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails, A Field Guide | 2020/02/05 | |
| Would you like to audition for BBC Two's Mastermind? | 2020/01/15 | |
| Stenogrammitis jamesonii found in Kerry, Eire | 2019/11/22 | |
| Save Askham Bog | 2019/11/19 | |
| Issue 10 October 2019 Cultivar Newsletter | 2019/11/14 | |
| NEW! Special Publication No. 16: Polypodium Cultivars and Species by Martin Rickard | 2019/10/29 | |
| Mutated ferns shed light on ancient mass extinction (sciencedaily.com) | 2019/10/29 | |
| royal fern is monarch of its own boggy kingdom (theguardian.com) | 2019/10/29 | |
| Pteridophyte Flora of Huai Yang Waterfall National Park,Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand (academia.edu) | 2019/09/28 | |
| Making friends with ferns, an evergreen solution to dark problems (theguardian.com) | 2019/08/20 | |
| Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Benmore Fernery (ebps.org.uk) | 2019/08/20 | |
| Success at Southport Flower Show (facebook.com) | 2019/08/20 | |
| Botanists rediscover extinct ferns on remote Queensland mountaintops (rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au) | 2019/07/21 | |
| Lycophytes and Ferns of the Solomon Islands (researchgate.net) | 2019/07/18 | |
| Helechos de Juan Fernandez (publicaciones.mnhn.cl) | 2019/07/11 | |
| Revisions to the fossil sporophyte record of Marsilea (content.sciendo.com) | 2019/06/21 | |
| Oxfordshire Gardens July 6 - July 7 | 2019/06/18 | |
| A Chinese fern can absorb doses of arsenic that would kill a human | 2019/05/30 | |
| Issue 7 April 2019 Cultivar Newsletter | 2019/05/19 | |
| Pteridoforum No. 103 Journal of the Fern Society of Southern Africa | 2019/05/04 | |
| Australian stamps showing Cyathea brownii with detail of fiddlehead and frond on a miniature sheet | 2019/04/17 | |
| Roy Lancaster visits…Fibrex Nurseries (First published in The Garden, magazine of the RHS) | 2019/04/09 | |
| Southport Fernery (from BBC's Britain in Bloom Series 2: Episode 4, available until 26/04/2019) | 2019/03/28 | |
| What Can Ferns Teach Us About Surviving Turbulent Times? (www.nytimes.com) | 2019/03/13 | |
| Details of our AGM at RHS Harlow Carr | 2019/03/05 | |
| 3 more Cultivar Newsletters to enjoy! | 2019/03/05 | |
| A message from Kylie Stocks to bring us up to date on the ‘About Ferns’ website | 2019/02/24 | |
| Jorge Lorenzo's garden of ferns (youtube.com) | 2019/02/08 | |
| Endangered UK plants brought back from brink by driving tractor over them (independent.co.uk) | 2019/02/03 | |
| Don’t forget that the Spore Exchange is open for requests until the end of March | 2019/01/14 | |
| Country diary: hart’s tongue ferns thrive in the gloom (theguardian.com) | 2019/01/08 | |
| Fern images is an ongoing project dedicated to collecting and presenting images of ferns and lycophytes | 2018/12/31 | |
| Exotic Epiphytes on Tree Ferns in Cibodas Botanical Gardens: The Importance of Light Preferences and Host Characteristics (academia.edu) | 2018/11/21 | |
| Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Ferns in A Tropical University Campus (academia.edu) | 2018/11/19 | |
| Platyceriums for Sale (ebps.org.uk) | 2018/11/15 | |
| Ferns as healing plants in medieval Mallorca, Spain? Evidence from human dental calculus (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) | 2018/11/11 | |
| Are there too many fern genera? (www.researchgate.net) | 2018/10/16 | |
| New Zealand gains a fern genus named after the Chinese imperial guard, Hiya (blog.tepapa.govt.nz) | 2018/09/25 | |
| The Endemic Plants of Chile – an Annotated Checklist (chileanendemics.rbge.org.uk) | 2018/09/25 | |
| Ferns are dying in Kitsap forests, and nobody knows why (eu.kitsapsun.com) | 2018/09/25 | |
| They’re raising attack insects to destroy invading ferns in Everglades (mypalmbeachpost.com) | 2018/09/25 | |
| Fern stamps from Nepal 2017 | 2018/09/23 | |
| The Whitwell Fern Garden, Kendal | 2018/09/22 | |
| Alison Evans joins the BPS Website Sub-Committee | 2018/08/30 | |
| Confused about our Home Page? | 2018/08/20 | |
| Culcita remberi sp. nov., an Understory Fern of Cyatheales from the Miocene of Northern Idaho (www.journals.uchicago.edu) | 2018/08/12 | |
| Chlorophyllosophy by Jennifer Deegan | 2018/08/01 | |
| Spore heroes: unlocking the life-cycle secrets of the earliest land plants (amp.theguardian.com) | 2018/07/20 | |
| Scientists conjecture how traces of toxic bracken ended up in the Iceman’s stomach (www.iceman.it) | 2018/07/18 | |
| An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes | 2018/07/05 | |
| Fern-tastic! Crowdfunded fern genomes published (phys.org) | 2018/07/04 | |
| Danesbury Fernery (youtube.com) | 2018/06/28 | |
| American Fern Journal (biodiversitylibrary.org) | 2018/06/05 | |
| The Cultivar group weekend 16th and 17th of June | 2018/06/05 | |
| The Fern Garden, Shirley Hibberd, Publication date 1872 (archive.org) | 2018/06/01 | |
| Top 10 ferneries from around Britain (www.telegraph.co.uk) | 2018/05/29 | |
| There are some new items from Merchandising. Please follow this link to see them | 2018/05/21 | |
| NGS Open Garden: North London May Bank Holiday Weekend | 2018/05/17 | |
| Genomic gigantism in the whisk-fern family (Psilotaceae): Tmesipteris obliqua challenges record holder Paris japonica (www.researchgate.net) | 2018/05/12 | |
| Non-native Minnows Threaten Quillwort Populations in High Mountain Shallow Lakes (www.frontiersin.org) | 2018/05/11 | |
| Project Gutenberg's The Fern Lover's Companion, by George Henry Tilton | 2018/04/09 | |
| The Parts of a Fern | 2018/04/06 | |
| The Spore Exchange is now closed for orders, but we welcome any donations to rebuild our stocks for next year. For information on donating please see here | 2018/04/02 | |
| Fern Cultivar Group Newsletters | 2018/03/29 | |
| Spring Meeting & 115th Annual General Meeting – 14th April 2018 | 2018/03/26 | |
| Filmy ferns in the valley of the Rhaeadr Ddu | 2018/03/26 | |
| Remember if you haven’t ordered your spores yet, that the Exchange closes for the year on Saturday the 31st March | 2018/03/18 | |
| Come on everyone with a camera / mobile phone - entries are still needed for the Photo Competition to be held at the AGM. See details in the Autumn Mailing | 2018/03/05 | |
| Sale time – the BPS 2018 calendar is still available – now a bargain at less than half price. You can order through the Merchandise webpage or by post. See the Merchandise page for details | 2018/03/05 | |
| Tim Pyner (1958-2018) | 2018/02/18 | |
| Publicity and Communication Officer vacancy | 2018/02/17 | |
| The Spore Exchange is now live on the website | 2018/01/01 | |
| Chelsea exhibit a ‘huge honour’ for owner of world-class plant collection in Kerry (www.irishexaminer.com) | 2017/12/19 | |
| Ruth Wheeler is a wood sculptor and artist and she has a passion for ferns | 2017/11/27 | |
| You may be interested to know about a forthcoming exhibition at GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art) Glasgow. It features a splendid example of a Wardian case from the Natural History collection | 2017/11/24 | |
| BPS 2018 CALENDAR – last year we ran out of the 2017 BPS calendars, so several people weren’t able to buy a copy. Don’t miss out this year. The 2018 BPS calendar is available to buy through the Merchandise page so don’t be disappointed this year and get yours in time for Christmas! | 2017/11/20 | |
| Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 2017/11/09 | |
| AboutFerns.org is a collaborative effort to collect information relating to the worlds ferns | 2017/11/09 | |
| A drone's eye view of the garden of Jorge Lorenzo in Galicia | 2017/11/08 | |
| An invitation to the 6th Edition of International Conference on Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants | 2017/11/04 | |
| Flora of Taiwan Second Edition Volume 1 Pteridophytes (tai2.ntu.edu.tw) | 2017/11/02 | |
| Ever wondered what is on this website? Click here for the full site map (You can search this page by doing a CTRL+F) | 2017/10/26 | |
| Restoring the Jodrell Bank Fern Collection with the British Pteridological Society (jodrellbank.net) | 2017/10/13 | |
| Fern books free of charge, from the BHL on-line library | 2017/10/10 | |
| Polystichum Cultivars by J.W.Dyce, edited and expanded by Robert Sykes and Martin Rickard, New 2nd Edition with Colour Plates | 2017/09/21 | |
| Ferns on Gardeners' World. The relevant section starts at 06m19s (youtube.com) | 2017/09/02 | |
| Do you need help in identifying British native ferns? | 2017/08/24 | |
| Una nueva población de Christella dentata en Tenerife, islas Canarias (In Spanish, with Google English translation below the article) | 2017/08/21 | |
| Gold medal for the BPS stand at Southport Flower Show! | 2017/08/20 | |
| Françoise Reth's Blog (Google translated from French) | 2017/08/19 | |
| More details on Focus Stacking (see Pteridologist V6 P4 page 263)(theitinerantbotanist.blogspot.co.uk) | 2017/07/28 | |
| Original antique victorian cast iron fern combination fireplace (ebay.co.uk) | 2017/07/15 | |
| The control over the Clegna torrent will not be done: denied permission | 2017/07/11 | |
| Blue prints: photography pioneer Anna Atkins's hand-crafted images – in pictures (theguardian.com) | 2017/06/24 | |
| Massive mystery fern die-off at Seattle park (king5.com) | 2017/06/19 | |
| Unfurling ferns dominate the dripping woods (theguardian.com) | 2017/06/05 | |
| Plant Heritage adds three new collections - Polypodium (hortweek.com) | 2017/06/05 | |
| Crowdfunding to sequence the genome of Marsilea vestita | 2017/06/01 | |
| A Fern unchanged (indefenseofplants.com) | 2017/06/01 | |
| Three Day Sale Of An Extensive Collection Mauchline Ware | 2017/05/29 | |
| Blechnaceae name changes table | 2017/05/01 | |
| Eccleston Square Gardens, Pimlico, Open Day Sunday 14 May (2 - 5pm). Admission £4.00 (ngs.org.uk) | 2017/04/27 | |
| Nursery sees fern sales up 44% as botanics trend kicks in (hortweek.com) | 2017/04/27 | |
| Hobbyist's Guide to Identifying Platyceriums (halling.com) | 2017/04/12 | |
| The XXI Cryptogamic Botany Symposium will take place on 20-24 June 2017 in Aranjuez, Spain | 2017/04/07 | |
| The program for the 2017 AGM | 2017/03/23 | |
| A tiny town beset by invasive plant life is the subject of this vivid and beautifully filmed documentary from Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands (theguardian.com) | 2017/03/12 | |
| Bob Brown, from Cotswold Garden Flowers, with his recommendations on wintergreen ferns for winter interest (rareplantfair.co.uk) | 2017/02/25 | |
| Yvonne Golding asks a question on BBC Gardeners Question Time from Hull - City of Culture 2017, Sun 29 January 2017 | 2017/02/01 | |
| Yvonne Golding asked a question on BBC Gardeners Question Time from Jodrell Bank, Sun 31 Mar 2013 | 2017/01/24 | |
| Don't forget to send your ferny entries for the Photographic Competition by 31st March 2017 | 2017/01/01 | |
| The Spore Exchange is now live on the website | 2017/01/01 | |
| New BPS Merchandise in time for Christmas – a BPS baseball cap and a fine woven fern scarf - see the Merchandise page for more details. | 2016/11/25 | |
| Fern stuff from Etsy (Etsy.com) | 2016/11/24 | |
| Fern Names and their Meanings - 2nd edition. First published by J.W. Dyce in 1988, and now fully revised and much enlarged by J.A. | 2016/11/12 | |
| Helechos amenazados de Andalucia (Consejería de Medio Ambiente. Junta de Andalucía) | 2016/11/11 | |
| New Zealand ferns by Richie Steffen (Facebook) | 2016/10/21 | |
| New Email List, Online Key, and OTS Course | 2016/10/10 | |
| Henstead exotic garden − our jungle off the A12 (eadt.co.uk) | 2016/09/23 | |
| Ferns and Fossils – children’s pictures | 2016/09/21 | |
| GARDENING with ALI MARSHALL: Ferns bring real elegance to the garden (torquayheraldexpress.co.uk) | 2016/09/11 | |
| Plant of the week: Alpine wood fern (theguardian.com) | 2016/09/05 | |
| Two New Species and a New Subgenus of Tarsonemid Mites (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Tarsonemidae) from Ferns in Poland | 2016/08/28 | |
| Campbell Fern Ceramic Pendant Light by LYNGARD CERAMICS(notonthehighstreet.com) | 2016/08/25 | |
| Scientists explore oil clean-up properties of aquatic ferns (phys.org) | 2016/08/23 | |
| BPS win Silver medal at Southport Flower Show | 2016/08/18 | |
| Now Available from NYBG Press: Anemia (Anemiaceae) Flora Neotropica Monograph 118 by John T. Mickel | 2016/08/14 | |
| Pikopiko takakau (damper bread with fiddleheads) (bite.co.nz) | 2016/07/26 | |
| A Pteridologist and Her Indomitable Ferns (thewire.in) | 2016/07/26 | |
| Lorna Mohi-Roberts and four lost children dug cave, survived on ferns in Urewera bush ordeal (stuff.co.nz) | 2016/07/26 | |
| Fossil visitor attraction will be safeguarded says council (clydebankpost.co.uk) | 2016/07/19 | |
| Which ferns float your boat? (telegraph.co.uk) | 2016/07/18 | |
| Highfield House Open Garden, Harbledown, Canterbury | 2016/07/09 | |
| New 'stumpery' to open on Sizergh Castle estate (thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk) | 2016/06/30 | |
| Watsonian Patent Fern Bricks, Paul Everson, offprinted from Garden History, 38 part 2 pages 315-9 (Winter 2010) | 2016/06/26 |
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| Plant of the Month: Palapalai fern (westhawaiitoday.com) | 2016/06/06 |
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| Lophosoria quadripinnata (silver fern) - Plants from the Woods & Forests of Chile | 2016/05/31 |
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| BPS stand at Chelsea wins a silver award | 2016/05/24 |
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| Native ferns are an easy way to add some 'green' to your drought garden (latimes.com) | 2016/05/24 |
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| Missing mother and daughter rescued after using ferns to spell 'help' in clearing (standard.co.uk) | 2016/05/04 |
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| New Merchandise for 2016 | 2016/05/02 |
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| Plant Society's First Newsletter (Spring 2016 Updated version) | 2016/04/25 |
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| The Fern That Cooled the Planet. About 50 million years ago the planet experienced extreme cooling, and all from a little fern. | 2016/04/18 |
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| The stumpery will be officially opened during the National Meeting in the Lakes by Sue Olsen and Richie Steffen on Friday 8th July at 11.00 am. | 2016/03/30 |
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| Victorian Scrap Album: Ferns from The Himalayas (1883) 37x28cm, 22pages (ebay) | 2016/03/11 | |
| A Comparative Study of Lady Ferns and Japanese Painted Ferns (Chicago Botanic Garden) | 2016/03/02 | |
| Proposed BPS fern tour to the Azores 2017 | 2016/03/01 | |
| Plant Society's First Newsletter (Spring 2016) | 2016/02/21 | |
| Britain's Treasure Islands | 2016/02/10 | |
| Whisk ferns are harmless, leafless plants (tcpalm.com) | 2016/02/06 | |
| Ferns on your plate (taipeitimes.com) | 2016/01/22 | |
| Pioneering project returns Diplazium laffanianum (Governor Laffan's Fern) to wild (royalgazette.com) | 2016/01/10 | |
| Another Green World - Linn Botanic Gardens: Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia | 2015/12/29 | |
| The Christmas Fern, a Cold-Weather Frond (nytimes.com) | 2015/12/27 | |
| Death of Scots botanist Jamie Taggart 'not suspicious' (bbc.co.uk) | 2015/12/18 | |
| Could bracken be the future of biofuels? (cnbc.com) | 2015/12/16 | |
| New Zealand flag referendum gets under way (theguardian.com) | 2015/11/20 | |
| The list has been produced by a team from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and Bòrd na Gàidhlig | 2015/11/18 | |
| Maidenhair spleenwort fern on a railway bridge near Mickleton | 2015/11/18 | |
| The best fern varieties and where to buy them (telegraph.co.uk) | 2015/11/08 | |
| A mouse that eats ferns like a dinosaur | 2015/11/04 | |
| A set of 100-year-old giant tree ferns have been installed at Pershore College as part of its £5.8million redevelopment. | 2015/10/25 | |
| The treefern garden of Jorge Lorenzo, Bergondo, A Coruña, Spain | 2015/10/12 | |
| News about the BPS exhibit at Chelsea 2016 | 2015/10/05 | |
| Hardy Blechnum in cultivation, an article by Tim Pyner, first published in the March 2012 issue of The Plantsman | 2015/10/01 | |
| Woodwardia in cultivation, an article by Tim Pyner in the Plantsman | 2015/09/30 | |
| Victorian art found under wallpaper at Lews Castle | 2015/09/20 | |
| The Fern Atlas 2002 | 2015/09/02 | |
| New Zealand's new flag: final four designs announced | 2015/09/01 | |
| BPS win Silver Medal at Southport Flower Show | 2015/08/27 | |
| YouTube’s auto-generated topic channel about ferns | 2015/08/20 | |
| Cyathea brownii frond, outside the temperate palmhouse, Edinburgh | 2015/08/18 | |
| Publicity and Marketing Officer required for the BPS | 2015/08/12 | |
| The life and craft of William and Henry Bradbury, masters of nature printing in Britain (HUNTIA Volume 15 Number 2 2015) | 2015/07/31 | |
| Culcita macrocarpa in the Picos de Europa, Spain (Google translation from the original Spanish) | 2015/07/29 | |
| Treaty of ferns of America by Charles Plumier, 1705 | 2015/07/26 | |
| Brakes and hairs from a maiden: The Pteridaceae fern family diversity in Togo (eurekalert.org) | 2015/07/23 | |
| Deparia petersenii is an invasive species (cabi.org) | 2015/07/08 | |
| Ferns by the dozens for Oregon gardeners (registerguard.com) | 2015/06/24 | |
| Try your hand at the Crossword (courtesy of the Pteridologist) | 2015/06/16 | |
| Last fern standing: Fairchild helps rescue South Florida’s disappearing plants (Miami Herald) | 2015/06/10 | |
| This clip is from the BBC's Coast, Series 9, Secret Paths to Hidden Treasures | 2015/06/04 | |
| Botrychium pumicola found on Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Oregon (2010) | 2015/06/04 | |
| Fern Show Garden at Gardening Scotland Wins Award | 2015/06/02 | |
| The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns by Richie Steffen and Sue Olsen | 2015/05/30 | |
| Detailed program and abstracts of the Next Generation Pteridology Conference | 2015/05/25 | |
| Reopened Fern Gully at the Botanic Gardens has 'plenty of garden drama' | 2015/05/21 | |
| Botanists look to fern for clues to Southeast Alaska's past | 2015/04/26 | |
| Eat Fiddlehead Ferns this Spring | 2015/04/14 | |
| The results of the BPS annual photographic competition 2015 | 2015/04/12 | |
| The fern stamps of Guernsey | 2015/04/11 | |
| 112th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was held at Ness Botanical Gardens on Saturday 11th April 2015 | 2015/04/11 | |
| Cystocarpium × roskamianum is the natural hybrid between Cystopteris dickieana and Gymnocarpium robertianum | 2015/02/24 | |
| Verdi Dining Set from M&S | 2015/02/02 | |
| Books from the library of the late Dr. Frances Jarrett, auctioned by Bonhams on 24/03/2015 | 2015/01/08 | |
| Something for everyone at Buçaco National Forest in central Portugal | 2015/01/02 | |
| FOTW is a digital herbarium that allows its members to publish photos of Ferns and Lycophytes on the site and to post comments without the approval of an Editor. | 2015/01/01 | |
| Ordering spores on-line | 2015/01/01 | |
| Ferns Eject Their Spores with Medieval-Style Catapults (Scientific American) | 2014/12/31 | |
| No longer available: Ferns at Cragside (ferny bit started at 00:23:20) | 2014/12/11 | |
| Rare Ferns: Thriving in Fumes and Grime | 2014/11/14 | |
| Polystichum lonchitis on Hutton Roof - a still from BBC Autumnwatch 2014 episode 4 (18:47) | 2014/10/31 | |
| Female ferns decide battle of the sexes (wired.co.uk) | 2014/10/24 | |
| Fern World Newsletter Issue 9 | 2014/10/20 | |
| Article by Dr Sarah Whittingham (devonlife.co.uk) | 2014/10/13 | |
| This website is based on fifteen years of field work on this spectacular small island and reveals an astonishing plant biodiversity of over 1300 wild flowering plant species and 150 species of ferns squeezed into a rugged 620 square kilometers. | 2014/10/10 | |
| This website aims to provide comprehensive lists of all species of ferns known from Thailand, Laos and Cambodia | 2014/10/09 | |
| Illustration by Helen Ahpornsiri | 2014/10/08 | |
| Weevils tackle invasive azolla water fern on River Till (BBC News Lincolnshire) | 2014/10/06 | |
| A gardener has created an extraordinary home for tree ferns in London | 2014/09/06 | |
| Who found our ferns? wins award | 2014/09/06 | |
| Information about the Next Generation Pteridology Symposium | 2014/09/06 | |
| Ascog Hall Fernery has new owners | 2014/08/26 | |
| Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail from the 1853 book Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns by Atkins and Dixon | 2014/08/16 | |
| BPS win GOLD at Southport Flower Show | 2014/08/14 | |
| A tribute by Ronnie Viane | 2014/08/12 | |
| News from Linn Botanic Gardens | 2014/08/10 | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace – Ferns collected in Borneo | 2014/08/05 | |
| Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ferns tackled with weevils | 2014/08/03 | |
| Anogramma ascensionis (section starts @ 0:07:00) from Plant Invaders, an episode from Radio 4's Plants: From Roots to Riches | 2104/07/31 | |
| BPS win GOLD at the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show... | 2104/07/31 | |
| Fern inspired fabric garments by ClementsRibeiro | 2014/07/23 | |
| Excert from BBC's Coast series (9/2) Secret paths to hidden treasures. Section starts at 0:09:00 | 2014/07/22 | |
| Ebook version of the victorian classic "Ferns and Fern Culture" by J. Birkenhead | 2014/07/17 | |
| Duke professor names new fern genus in honor of Lady Gaga | 2014/07/07 | |
| Article on Azolla (newsobserver.com) | 2014/07/07 | |
| Article from economist.com on Azolla, nitrogen-fixing ferns, aquatic alfalfa, finding the genome of this extraordinary plant | 2014/06/21 | |
| A miscellany of fern inspired artefacts from Homes & Aniques magazine | 2014/05/23 | |
| A species of tree fern discovered in Ecuador in 2003 has finally been proved to be distinct from its Costa Rican cousin | 2014/05/18 | |
| The results of the BPS annual photographic competition | 2014/04/12 | |
| The latest version of of the BPS on-line Newsletter | 2014/03/01 | |
| All the versions of of the BPS on-line Newsletter | 2011/12/01 | |
| Report of the formal opening of the restored victorian fernery at Benmore | 2009/09/08 |
