Fern Festival and Sale, May 19, 19th annual, includes music, mini-seminars on ferns, and sale of over 40 different types of perennial garden ferns, all hardy to North Alabama, mini-seminars at the ...

Oshkosh Garden Club's Spring Plant Sale is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 17, 2025, on the grounds of Oshkosh Public Museum, 1331 Algoma Blvd.

Jones will give a classroom presentation, followed by a hands-on planting demonstration in the arboretum’s Woodland Shade Garden. Ferns for sale at the class. Meet in Horticultural Classroom 105.

Once established, the ferns will start producing runners, which will turn into new plants. If you have a small garden space, you can dig these new plants annually, pot up, and gift to friends.

Ferns often possess a grace of form and movement that is not common among garden plants. Some of the ferns we can plant in the landscape are evergreen and some are deciduous.

Ferns are one of the most useful and diverse groups of plants for shady areas, and now is a great time to plant them. Many species of hardy ferns are suitable for planting in Louisiana landscapes.