If your garden feels a little tired by August, take a look at what's still doing the heavy lifting. Chances are, it's the foliage.⁠ ⁠ When most perennials fade, evergreen ferns are just getting started. 🌿⁠ ⁠ They bring texture, structure, and fresh green foliage to the garden long after flowers have disappeared—and some stay beautiful even beneath a blanket of snow.⁠ ⁠ In "Evergreen Ferns," Jane Roy Brown introduces a few favorites worth getting to know.⁠ ⁠ 🌿 Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) keeps its glossy fronds through winter, earning its name from generations of gardeners who gathered it for holiday greenery.⁠ ⁠ 🌿 Rock polypody (Polypodium virginianum) makes its home on mossy boulders, slowly weaving a carpet of evergreen fronds where few other plants can thrive.⁠ ⁠ 🌿 Deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant) forms an elegant fountain of arching evergreen foliage around a central cluster of fertile fronds, adding year-round texture to woodland gardens.⁠ ⁠ 🌿 Braun's holly ...