What you need to know about Spider plants

Chlorophytum comosum variegatum

• Whilst Spider plants are common and oft forgotten houseplants a bit of LTC (tender loving care) will produce grand specimens.
• Spiders are voracious eaters and that is also true of Spider Plants so give them plenty of nitrogen based fertiliser.
• Spider plants are also called Chlorophytum comosum variegatum – quite a mouthful or another name is St Bernards Lily. Or you could call it ‘Boris’
• Healthy leaves look good. Keep plants moist for good foliage
• The flowers are small often insignificant white blossom.
• Happy plants produce off-spring in the form of baby plantlets at the end of runners.
• Runners are easy to put in a pot with compost to grow new plants.
• Repot in loam and feed the fleshy root system

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