Asparagus ferns

[FJ and G]

All of my asparagus ferns have gone from green to whitish yellow and the leaves on them are dropping. I'm hoping that since these are perennials, they will come back to life in spring. Should I trim these or just leave them as is? You can see the plant in the first photo in the upper right portion.

With the warm weather, nearly everything else is still green.  My mosses and ferns are especially doing well (see photo), as is my winter heather, with pink blossoms (bottom photo). These heathers love semi shade, as I lost 2 to the brutal summer full sun.

 

 

[Anonymous]

This real fern country but maybe not so where you live and i think that you are just getting a tatse of winter and all will be well next spring. Here in Australia we have ferns that haven't existed in the rest of the world for millions of years. They even have temperate rain forests but not so where i live, it is tropical and all that goes with this as far as ferns and palms are concerned.

Rgds Ian

 

[ttrigg]

David;
As the ferns die back, you can trim and prune all you want. You could even go so far as to dig them up and divide the "root ball" in half so that next year you can enjoy two instead of one. When trimming you will want to leave about an inch or so of the old stocks, you will have new growth shortly there after, depending on the actual temperatures.

[Anonymous]

More common sense from Tom

Tks Ian

[FJ and G]

thanks Tom!!!!!!!!

I hadn't considered dividing the rootball, but I guess I can do that with several other varieties of plants.

 

Thus far, the only plants I've successfully propagated are odom sedum and another type of sedum, the name of which slips my memory. With these, you can just pull pieces of stalk out and scatter them around and they grow on their own and seem to thrive in sun and drought.

 

Again, much thanks, as this will save me money from buying plants.