Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Japanese aralia (Fatsia japonica) was introduced into cultivation in the western world in the early 1800s and has been a popular houseplant ever since. It adds tropical flair to any room. This big, bold, burly foliage plant is especially desirable because it does well in […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) is the state flower of Hawaii, and almost every advertise- ment for a vacation in that paradise features a beautiful Hawaiian woman with a brilliant Technicolor hibiscus flower tucked behind her ear. Those gorgeous, evocatively tropical flow- ers, the biggest of any plant […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH The touchy gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) is almost worth growing for the pretty leaves alone. But it’s the intensely fragrant pure white flowers that lure you to it. Their heady, tropical, unforgettable scent fills a room, making garde- nia absolutely irresistible despite its demanding nature. Indoors, in […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Flowering maple (Abutilon ×hybridum) is a fast-growing, broadleaf evergreen shrub with long twiggy stems that bend and arch under the weight of the flowers. It acquired its common name because the leaves have the same shape as maple leaves and because it has pretty flow- ers. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH A big, bold, dramatic houseplant that makes a beautiful addition to any room, fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata) is easy to grow and low mainte- nance. You frequently see it as a large specimen plant or focal point in offices, malls, or other large public buildings […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH False aralia (Schefflera elegantissima) is tall, upright, and bushy, with very attractive seven- to 11-fingered evergreen palmately compound leaves. The beautiful leaflets are nearly black, knobby, and spidery thin—so thin that false ara- lia is considered a see-through plant, whose lacy foliage is never so […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH A well-grown croton (Codiaeum variegatum) is a brilliant focal point in any room. It’s an ever- green, or rather ever-colorful, shrub, and many of the hundreds of croton cultivars are choice houseplants. They are well worth the effort to keep them bright and happy. As […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Coontie (Zamia pumila) is a small, tough, very slow growing woody cycad. Because these plants thrive in sun or shade, have high drought tolerance, moderate salt tolerance, and are cold hardy to zone 9, coonties are widely used in outdoor landscaping. All these virtues combine […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH All citrus plants are species in or hybrids derived from the genera Citrus and Fortunella. Most are ancient accidental hybrids, which were discovered growing wild by humans a very long time ago—so long ago that no one remembers exactly where they came from. Botanists are […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Graceful and elegant, ti (Cordyline fruticosa) is beloved for its beautiful evergreen foliage in a wide variety of colors. A shrub, the plant has thin, strong, woody stems that, when grown as a houseplant, reach 4 to 5 feet tall. The strap-shaped 2-foot-long and 4-inch-wide leaves […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Pygmy date palm (Phoenix roebelenii) is grown everywhere as an ornamental in the interiorscaping of public buildings and as a house-plant in private homes, where it reaches only about 3 feet in height. The plant’s stout little stems are encased in fibrous brown leaf bases […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Many people know and love pony-tail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata), another plant that looks like it came straight from a story by Dr. Seuss. Grown worldwide as an ornamental, it also succeeds quite well indoors in a large pot, growing to 8 feet in 20 years. […]