Foxtail Fern (Asparagus Densiflorus) – 3 Gallon Pot

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Native to South Africa, the Foxtail Fern (Asparagus densiflorus) is a perennial evergreen plant that can be grown indoors or outdoors, depending on your location. If the winter temperatures don’t go below freezing you can can grow it outdoors year round. Otherwise, it can be grown in a container that can be situated outdoors during the warm seasons and overwintered indoors, or grown indoors year round as a houseplant. It features highly attractive fluffy stems of pine needle-like leaves resembling a foxtail, which gives it a plush appearance. A member of the asparagus family, the Foxtail Fern is actually not a fern at all, but an evergreen herb. Unlike ferns which use spores to reproduce, it uses seeds. The plant produces tiny white flowers that are followed by eye-catching red berries. A wonderful textural addition to both outside gardens and indoor houseplant collections, indoors it likes bright indirect light, and outdoors it likes shade to part shade with shade in the afternoon hours. Foxtail Fern is also used as greenery in flower arrangements where it stays fresh for two to three weeks.

Growing to about 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide (wider in tropical frost-free climates), the lush and plush Foxtail Fern is ideal for use indoors or outdoors, depending on the location. If winter low temperatures don’t drop below freezing, it can be grown year-round outdoors where it serves as an accent or in small grouping in small garden spaces, and large groupings or absolutely stunning mass plantings in larger landscape borders. Where winter low temperatures drop below freezing, it can be grown in containers that can be situated outdoors during the warm season and brought indoors during the cold season, when temperatures are forecast to drop below 50F, or grown indoors year round as a houseplant. A fine addition to woodland gardens, shade gardens, fern gardens, Asian gardens, rock gardens and around garden ponds. 

The Foxtail Fern is one of the easiest garden and houseplant ferns to grow. For helpful tips, click on the Planting & Care Advice tab on this page.

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