Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Commercial fertilizer packages often describe their contents as “plant food.” This is a mis- nomer. Fertilizer contains mineral nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that plants require for growth, but any plant’s actual food, what they actually eat, is the sugar they make from […]
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
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH When you purchase a bag of “potting soil” from your local garden center what you’re actually getting is not soil. It’s an artificial mixture of ingredients specifically designed to meet the needs of plants in containers and usually con- tains no actual soil at all. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Water moves through a plant’s body through a process called transpiration. The roots absorb water from the soil, then move it upward through the stem and out into the leaves. Water, as a vapor, moves out of the leaf into the air through special pores […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH The goal of any watering practice or system is to keep the soil moist—neither soggy nor dry. Root rot as a result of overwatering is the number one killer of all plants in containers whether indoors or out. This fact, more than any other, tells […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên TIẾNG ANH Success with a particular houseplant depends on knowing the daily temperature regime (day- time high and nighttime low) that plant needs to flourish under your care. Fortunately, plants are fairly forgiving and will adjust to day or night temperatures within a range of about […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên TIẾNG ANH Plants eat light! They harvest solar energy and convert it to chemical energy. They turn sun- light into sugar and they “burn” the sugar in order to grow, flower, and thrive. In the com- plete absence of light all plants die sooner or later. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên TIẾNG ANH INTRODUCTION: Prepare for Success (GIỚI THIỆU: Chuẩn bị cho thành công) Houseplants are a relatively recent phenomenon. For most of human history we did not have glass windows, and the insides of our homes were too dark for plants. When glass was first manufactured, […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) is a perennial favorite, among the most common, easy-to-grow, and undemanding of all house- plants. You frequently see it in hanging baskets, but it does just as well in pots on a table or desk. Numerous strap-shaped evergreen leaves, to 18 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Purple passion plant is a hybrid of two closely related species, Gynura aurantiaca and Gynura procumbens. Velvety soft amethyst-purple hairs cover the new growth and the dark green stems, and when the sun lights them up, this house- plant really stands out. It’s a fast-growing ever- […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Peperomias are well worth growing for their attractive evergreen leaves. They are quietly undemanding, not at all flashy or flamboyant, and because they tolerate a wide range of envi- ronmental conditions, they are easy to keep as houseplants. The most commonly cultivated species are Peperomia […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Lucky bamboo (Dracaena braunii) isn’t really a bamboo and it’s a good thing. Real bamboo doesn’t make a good houseplant, whereas lucky bamboo is nearly indestructible inside our homes. It is often found in dimly lit restau- rants, on the front desk of hotel lobbies, even in the […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Spectacular flowers, in eye-catching colors and as velvety soft as a horse’s nose, almost guaran- tee impulse purchases of gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa). How could anyone pass this houseplant up when it is in full gorgeous bloom? Gloxinias strongly resemble their cousins, African violets, except that […]