The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns

Marc Notes: Includes index.; The authors recommend a selection of classic and new fern cultivars. They focus on designing with ferns in a range of garden settings and combining them with companion plants. This book includes an extensive plant list with 100 of the top-performing varieties, inspiring photography and a useful list of the best places to see and buy ferns.

Contributor Bio:  Steffen, Richie Richie Steffen is curator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, where he oversees the plant record database, general horticulture, and manages the garden's special collections, including rare plants, ferns, hepaticas, woodland plants, rare bulbs, and alpine plants. He is a well-known personality on the Pacific Northwest horticulture scene, traveling extensively to collect plants and visit gardens. He also regularly lectures and writes. A superb photographer, Richie is building an archival image collection at the Miller Garden. He currently serves as a board member of the Northwest Horticultural Society and the Hardy Fern Foundation. Contributor Bio:  Olsen, Sue Sue Olsen has been studying, photographing, and writing about ferns for more than four decades. She is author of the award-winning" Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns "and through her nursery, Foliage Gardens, has introduced numerous ferns to horticulture. A founding member and first president of the Hardy Fern Foundation, Sue is editor of the "Hardy Fern Foundation Quarterly". She is a graduate of Cornell University and lives in Bellevue, Washington.