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    Growing aspargus as a decorative?

    I have three asparagus crowns ready to plant. Rather than grow them at the allotment I was thinking about growing them in a clump in the herbaceous border at home as a decorative plant? That way I can let them settle in and enjoy the foliage for three years before a possible harvest in the third year..
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    Sounds like a plan.
    Feed the soil, not the plants.
    (helps if you have cluckies)

    Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
    Bob

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    • #3
      Yes, why not? I have one that must have come from a seed from who knows where as I've never deliberately grown asparagus and it looks very pretty through the summer. I guess it must have come by bird delivery.

      Unfortunately it has chosen to grow right up against the fence, against the concreted in fence post, and on the other side of the fence are slabs, so I have no chance of ever digging it out to move. It gets no feed or watering and because of its position it never puts up more than 3 or 4 fronds of leaves, but it never seems to suffer and cheerfully returns each year.
      Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
      Endless wonder.

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      • #4
        Yep why not, a neighbour of mine grows it at the back of a boarder against a wall as a decorative plant. Unless the owner is v keen on fighting their way to the back of the boarder past several shrubs etc.

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