Gardening wasn’t always a shady business for Carol and David Sutcliffe. When the couple moved into their home 11 years ago, the grove of oak and pine trees in their back yard was still small enough ...

Lisa Lofland Gould holds a hand behind a New York fern for a sense of scale. The broad leaves (from left) of a netted chain fern are sterile, while the thin leaves are fertile; a Northern maidenhair ...