Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis) is a creeping houseplant grown for its dramatic evergreen foliage. Each leaf displays an intricate, lace-like network of veins in white, magenta-pink, or red that contrasts beautifully with the dark olive-green background. The resulting intense color patterns invite closer inspection. It’s […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans) is a vine-like evergreen perennial that grows to perfection in hanging baskets. The 2-foot-long stems arch gracefully out and down, away from the center of the plant. Cutting the stems back by not more than one-third encourages side branching and makes […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH All goldfish plants—Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, and Neomortonia nummularia—are trailing evergreen perennials that grow very well in hanging baskets. The small leaves are thick and waxy, glossy in some, fuzzy in others. Leaf color is usually a crisp bright green but can be dark green, […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Biên dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The geraniums we grow as houseplants in the United States are species and cultivars of the genus Pelargonium. All are evergreen perennials whose original home was South Africa, so they are all frost-tender. These include scented-leaf geraniums (various species with strongly aromatic foliage), zonal geraniums […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH What’s not to love about a plant that grows slowly, likes the warmth and reduced light of our homes, and whose flowers last for months? Flamingo flowers (Anthurium spp.) are, in many ways, perfect flowering houseplants, and even when not in bloom, their heart-shaped foliage […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Don’t confuse false shamrock (Oxalis triangularis) with either its weedy relative, Oxalis corniculata, or true Irish shamrock (Trifolium dubium), both of which have yellow flowers. False sham- rock is neither invasive nor weedy, and its dainty flowers are white or pale pink. It is endemic […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) is a perennial that keeps on giving. Plant one out in your garden and before you know it, you will have thousands of them. As a houseplant, it is just as generous but much more controllable— though you’ll still have to […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The appeal of coleus (Solenostemon scutellari- oides) lies in its fantastic, bizarre, amazing foli- age. Three or four brilliant kaleidoscopic colors of green, yellow, red, pink, orange, magenta, white—even black—adorn each soft, velvety leaf in discrete patches or intricate lace-like pat- terns. The basic shape […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The slow-growing clivia (Clivia miniata) has 2-foot-long, 2-inch-wide, dark evergreen, strap-shaped leaves. These arch out gracefully, seemingly direct from the potting medium. There are stems, but they are short and com- pletely covered by the foliage. Underground, the plant has long, ropy rhizomes. Mature, well-grown specimens […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH In addition to their beauty, Chinese evergreens (Aglaonema commutatum, A. modestum, A. pic- tum) are undemanding; thus, they are widely grown in public spaces such as shopping malls, hospitals, and hotels. The plant’s small size and proven ability to purify indoor air make it a perfect companion […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Cast-iron plant (Aspidistra elatior) is practically indestructible, as its common name suggests. This tough-as-nails, easy-to-grow plant was very popular and quite common in the Victorian era. In modern times, however, it’s harder to find and can be pricey: it grows very slowly and so it’s […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH As with all aroids, the colorful part of the calla lily (Zantedeschia spp.) is the scoop-shaped spathe surrounding a finger-like spadix covered with minute flowers. Hundreds of these barely visible flowers are packed onto the spa- dix. The big, bright spathe and the gorgeous foliage […]