Buy Asparagus Sprengerii Fern - Elegant and Low Maintenance Houseplant

Description

Common name:

Asparagus Sprengerii, Sprengeri Fern

Regional name:

Marathi - Satavari, Hindi - Satavari, Bengali - Stmuli, Gujarati - Satavar, Kannada - Jayibem, Malayalam - Shatavali, Sanskrit - Shatavari, Tamil - Kilavari, Telugu - Philli Tega

Category:

Shrubs, Medicinal Plants, Groundcovers, Indoor Plants

Family:

Liliaceae or Lily family

Light:

Sun growing, Semi shade

Water:

Normal

Primarily grown for:

Foliage

Flowering season:

Flowers in flushes throughout the year, Flowers are inconspicuous

Flower or Inflorescence color:

White

Foliage color:

Green

Plant Height or length:

50 cms to 100 cms

Plant Spread or Width:

50 cms to 100 cms

Plant Form:

Low spreading, Weeping

Special Character:

• Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
• Good for Cut foliage
• Good for screening
• Good for Hedges and Borders
• Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
• Attracts bees
• Thorny or Spiny
• Suitable for road median planting
• Hanging or weeping growth habit
• Salt or salinity tolerant
• Good on seaside

Generally available in India in quantities of:

Over thousands

Plant Description:

- This is the most commonly grown ornamental Asparagus.
- Plants have stiff leaves that are borne on long shoots.
- Asparagus are easy plants to grow.
- They belong to the lily family. They all have swollen roots.
- Plants have finely cut leaves. These leaves are sought after by florists for flower arrangements.
- Asparagus plants throw up new shoots from the base. each new shoot is stronger and larger than the previous ones.
- The flowers are tiny, white and borne in profusion.
- The fruit is small, round, green and matures to red and then black.
- Plants can be trimmed to keep in shape.
- Plants are often used for planting in balconies or raised beds so that they hang down.

Growing tips:

- Asparagus plants are easy to grow.
- Rarely do we come across anybody - who has a problem growing this asparagus plant.
- Plants like rich, fertile and well drained soil.
- They can be grown both in the soil as well as pots.
- If planted in pots they have to be changed every few years as the pots get full of swollen roots.