Thư mục: [Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant (Có vấn đề gì với cây trong nhà của tôi?) – David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis, Doritis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Moth orchids are species and hybrids in the gen- era Phalaenopsis and Doritis, and their interge- neric cross, ×Doritaenopsis. All are epiphytes in nature (they never grow in soil), and any one of the many available kinds would be a sophis- ticated addition to your home. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lady’s slipper (Paphiopedilum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Although this common name is applied to three different genera of orchids, the genus we’ll dis- cuss here is Paphiopedilum. Paphiopedilums are the best of all the lady’s slippers and the ones you’ll readily find in your local stores. They are among the easiest of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Guzmania (Guzmania lingulata)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Floral bracts in a wide array of colors—flaming scarlet, red, pink, orange, lavender, or yellow— form a globular inflorescence that stands above the handsome, glossy leaves of this popular bro- meliad. Guzmania plants (Guzmania lingulata,G. sanguinea, and numerous hybrids) are about 10 inches tall and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens) is a brome- liad common in garden centers, supermarkets, and big box stores. It’s a popular houseplant both for its impressive, bright red inflores- cence and for its colorful leaves, whose alter- nating cross-wise bands of maroon and silvery green look […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Earthstar (Cryptanthus acaulis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The commonly cultivated earthstars Cryptan- thus acaulis and C. zonatus are bromeliads grown strictly for their foliage. Their starry, wavy-edged and sharply spiny leaves come in shades of red, rose, pink, green, and brown— even nearly black with silver. The stiff leaves are longitudinally striped […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dendrobium

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dendrobium is one of the largest genera of orchids, with more than 1,600 species and many, many hybrids, offering flowers in every color (except true blue). The growing requirements for so many different orchids are just as various. The specifications given here for growing den- […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dancing ladies (Oncidium spp.) are among the easiest orchids to grow successfully as house- plants. The plants are as beautiful as the flow- ers, and they can be relied on to repeat bloom so long as you provide them with the condi- tions they need. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cymbidium (Cymbidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Cymbidiums are attractive even when not in flower—something that cannot be said of many orchids. The trouble is, their huge size and need for low temperatures make standard cymbidiums (Cymbidium spp.) challenging as house- plants, and Asian miniature cymbidiums, although tiny, require high temperatures to […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Corsage orchid (Cattleya)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Corsage orchids acquired their common name during the 1940s and ’50s when Cattleya cor- sages were all the rage among fashionable women of high society. First Lady Mamie Eisen- hower popularized them; she was rarely seen in public without a corsage of one or two […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Beallara and Aliceara

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The huge and utterly fascinating orchid world contains thousands of fully fertile complex hybrids made between species in different gen- era. Beallaras and alicearas are in the Odon- toglossum/Oncidium alliance. Many of these hybrid genera in this alliance were named after the first orchid breeder […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spring bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Crocus, daffodils, grape hyacinths, hyacinths, and tulips will grace your home at a time when winter has a firm grip on the garden. Their riotous, happy colors in full bloom—red, pink, orange, yellow, blue, deep purple, lavender, and white—are a great tonic for chasing away […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rieger begonia (Begonia × hiemalis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Riegers (Begonia ×hiemalis) are a hybrid begonia strain created in 1955 by German plant breeder Otto Rieger, who crossed tuberous begonias (B.×tuberhybrida) and wax begonias (B. cucullata). The 2-inch-wide flowers are often perfect rep- licas, in miniature, of their fabulous parent the tuberous begonia, and […]

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