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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH These striking little plants are choice succulents that are easy to grow, low maintenance, and almost indestructible. Haworthias look like min- iature aloes with zebra stripes; the most desir- able species for growing indoors are Haworthia attenuata, H. bolusii, H. fasciata, and H. maxima. These […]

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH All the approximately 400 species and hybrids in Aloe are excellent container specimens, with showy, tubular flowers in brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows. But only a few of these desert-dwelling succulents make good house- plants. Of these, A. vera is the most popular. Oth- ers to […]

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Three of the approximately 450 species of aga- ves, many of them very attractive specimens, are often grown as houseplants. Parry’s agave (Agave parryi), like all its cousins, is an evergreen suc- culent perennial. It has stiff, thick, 12-inch-long steel-blue leaves shaped like broadswords and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spider orchid (Brassia gireoudiana)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A well-grown spider orchid (Brassia gireoudi- ana) in full flower is an astonishing sight. The plant looks like it comes from outer space. The flowers are amazing, bizarre, fascinating. They’re huge, as much as 1 foot from top to bot- tom, with extremely skinny and spidery […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pansy orchid (Miltoniopsis hybrids)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn   ENGLISH Gorgeous, elegant, and sophisticated are the adjectives that spring to mind when describ- ing these lovely orchids, whose popularity has exploded in recent years. Well-grown pansy orchids (Miltoniopsis hybrids) have long, wiry flower stalks that arch up, out, and down from the center of […]

[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?: 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 […]

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