On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:44:45 GMT, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:


John Smith wrote
I recently bought a plant, but I'm not sure what kind it is. All I know
is it is some type of fern.

Please take a look at my plant he

http://www3.sympatico.ca/pjung/plant

Your plant is not a fern at all.

Its Asparagus plumosa, a xerophytic flowering plant.

If you have the dwarf form of the species, it will stay small.

If you keep it moist and in shade like a true fern, it will eventually die.

Asparagus need plenty of light and to go dry between waterings to do well.

Do not mist it.

Asparagus fern (sic) is a *desert* plant? Who'd've thunk it? And
what's this about "flowering"?