This thread reminds me that last weekend the "home and garden" supplement of the Portland newspaper had an article on shade plants, and the section "Ferns" featured a stock photo of ... Asparagus -- the sort grown as a house plant and called "asparagus fern." I didn't send a twitting e-mail but I'll bet some others did. The only asparagus I grow here is the kind we eat, and being American, I don't have to blanch it. Jane McGary At 09:50 AM 2/15/2012, you wrote: >I have Asparagus verticillatus, hardy. > >Janos >Z5a, Hungary