ASPARAGUS Fern - Asparagus Sprengeri

Species: Asparagus
Latin name: Asparagus Sprengeri
Other usual name: Asparagus de Spenger - en. Asparagus Fern
Variety: Asparagus Sprengeri
Family: Liliaceae/Asparagaceae
Origin: South Africa

The Asparagus Fern : Hardy perennial, vigorous, and cascading plant with long needle like leaves on a thin stem of a bright green color resembling a fern, with a beautiful greenish yellow flowering in summer. The black fruits are not comestible. Ideal like house plant, or for floral bouquet.

Seed sowing: All year
Flowering of asparaguses: July to August
Height: The asparagus reaches on average 50 to 80 cm
Exposure: Middle shade, bright light

Sowing instructions: Seed sowing in hot and wet greenhouse, soak seeds during 24 hours before sowing to help germination, fill pots with a light compost, to plant seeds in 5 mm depth, preserve soil slightly wet. Cover the pot with a clear plastic, or best under mini greenhouse in a bright room in room temperature in summer. In winter in a heated, well ventilated bright room. Remove browned branches. Don't place plant in full sun this would the leaves.

Seed germination: 1 month
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 19 °C to 21°C

Net weight of seeds:2 gr -/+ 40 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.