Chlorophytum comosum Lemon Spider Plant
CHO-COM
- Description
You cannot get a much easier to grow houseplant than a spider plant and Chlorophytum comosum Lemon is no exception. Tolerant of lots of neglect the variety Lemon has pale, plain green, extra long leaves up to 40cm in length. I have to say from a personal point of view I actually prefer the green leaved varieties to the variegated. Small white flowers are produced on long creeping or trailing inflorescences and plantlets also form on the branched parts of the inflorescence.. This gives the plant an attractive trailing effect when grown in a pot, hanging basket or over a wall. The plantlets can be left in place or snipped off, potted and grown on.
As we said they are very tolerant of neglect and will often recover if left to dry out or positioned in a droughty location and will even survive in cooler, unheated rooms as long as it does not drop below freezing. Give it moderate light indoors, water freely during the summer and keep on the drier side during the winter. Feed as and when you remember with a regular liquid fertiliser.
We often use these South African plants out in the garden during the summer trailing over the edge of large pots or as foreground planting in the beds. Generally we remove the plantlets to grow on under glass for the winter to re-plant outside the following year. Saying that we often do not need all the plantlets as we are regularly finding the parent plants are re-shooting from the fleshy rootstock in the spring as long as the ground has not frozen solid during the winter.
Please note we grow the chlorophytum as summer tropical bedding, not as houseplants and they are kept outside during the warmer months so are exposed to wind and bugs and beasties. We do not grow them in clinical, artificially heated, sterile glasshouses like the perfectly formed but weaker Dutch plants you will find in the houseplant section of a garden center.
Sent as a young plant in a 9cm pot. May be cut back for shipping. Re-growth is fast.- Position
- Flowering
- Growth