Buy Compact Asparagus Densiflorus Compacta - The Perfect Addition to Your Garden!
- Common name:
- Compact Asparagus
- Regional name:
- Marathi - Satavari, Hindi - Satavari, Bengali - Stmuli, Gujarati - Satavar, Kannada - Jayibem, Malayalam - Shatavali, Sanskrit - Shatavari, Tamil - Kilavari, Telugu - Philli Tega
Category:
- Groundcovers
- Family:
- Liliaceae or Lily family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate less
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- White
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- Less than 50 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- Less than 50 cms
- Plant Form:
- Spreading
- Special Character:
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- Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
- Suitable for road median planting
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
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Plant Description:
- - Plants have multiple round full shoots. They radiate outward from the ground giving the plant a pretty robust form.
- They belong to the lily family. They have swollen roots.
- Plants have finely cut leaves.
- 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. -
Growing tips:
- Asparagus plants are easy to grow.
- Rarely do we come across anybody - who has a problem growing asparagus plants.
- 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.
- Plants are long lived. Prepare soil well. In case plants become root bound they can be removed, part of their root ball cut and new potting mix added.