Like most tropical houseplants, the bird’s nest fern likes average indoor temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bringing more birds into your garden does more than just add color and song. It creates a sense of liveliness and peace, ...

Nicole Cammorata, a plant enthusiast who is also Mashable's Executive Commerce Editor, found that her bird's nest fern looked much more alert when she stopped babying it.

Whether they build nests within or not, trees and shrubs provide safe havens from which birds can make foraging trips to your feeders or to the ground. Many shrubs will also provide food for ...

Most birds' nests are deliberately inconspicuous. Hummingbird nests are tiny, ... If you see anyone, pro or amateur, messing with an inhabited plant, give them a heads-up and quote the law.

It’s a thorny shelter for about 18 species of birds that nest in these trees until fall, when robins, cardinals, blue jays and cedar waxwings, among others, feast on their showy orange berries.

In short, a yard without appropriate nest sites, shelter, and available construction materials will have no nesting birds. But an even bigger demand for nesting birds should be obvious: food for ...