Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Most of the time when you find a cactus labeled “ball cactus,” it will be one of the 25 or moreParodia species. As youngsters, all ball cacti are indeed round as a ball, but as they age they become columnar. They have deep furrows between raised […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata) is a big (2 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide), bold, extremely attractive bromeliad with an astonishingly bright, shocking pink inflorescence. Its numerous 18 to 36-inch-long, 2-inch-wide, stiff and leathery leaves are silver with gray-green bands. Some cultivars have creamy […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Tillandsia is a large genus of small, primarily rootless wonders that are grown as house- plants pinned, tied, or glued onto slabs of bark, branches, or driftwood, and then hung on a wall or suspended in mid-air. The exception is pink quill (T. cyanea), which […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans) is so beautiful and so easy to grow, it is no wonder it is such a popular houseplant. Plants grow 16 to 18 inches tall and 30 inches wide and are par- ticularly attractive in a hanging pot or basket, where the […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH These bromeliads are grown primarily for their very showy and colorful foliage. Neorege- lia carolinae is the most commonly cultivated species. Plants are 2 feet wide and half as tall, flat-topped, with a rosette of 1.5-inch-wide, 12-inch-long, strap-shaped leaves striped like ribbon candy with creamy white. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]