Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus) is a strange little desert succulent, a botanical oddity that looks exactly like its common name, except that the pearls are green—like a string of peas. Long, trailing, string-like stems hang down around all sides of the pot and it’s […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Gorgeous large flowers hover on wiry stems above a flat rosette of hairy, wrinkled leaves in these unusual plants. Many of these tropical evergreens are in cultivation, but the primary ones grown as houseplants are Streptocarpus×hybridus. These complex hybrids derive fromS. dunnii, S. johannis, and […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Begonia rex has been used extensively in hybridization with Begonia masoniana and other species and hybrids to give rise to the Rex Cultorum group of complex hybrids, known collectively as rex begonias. Rex begonias, with their showstopping foliage, are the kings of the begonia world. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura) is a low- growing, rhizomatous houseplant prized for its beautiful evergreen foliage. Whenever it gets dark, it rolls its striking leaves up into cylinders and holds them erect, as if in evening prayer. In the morning, or when you turn the […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Most good houseplants are tropical, adapted to warm nighttime temperatures and rainforest conditions. Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii) is an exception. The maritime climate from which this native Pacific Northwesterner hails is very different from the typical home environment, and yet piggy-back plant holds its […]
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 […]
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: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Philodendrons are the unsung heroes of the houseplant world. Not only are they perfectly comfortable living in the same environments as humans, they are lovely to look at and very tolerant of being relocated. Move them from room to room or take them outside for […]
ENGLISH Angel wing begonias are easy, gorgeous year-round houseplants that bloom profusely with drooping clusters of small brightly col- ored flowers. The original was a hybrid betweenBegonia aconitifolia and B. coccinea created by California plant breeder Eva Kenworthy Gray in 1926. Since that cross, many more have been made with several other species, and hundreds of […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Aluminum plant (Pilea cadierei) is an easy-to-grow tropical houseplant, welcome everywhere for its striking evergreen foliage. Plants get 12 inches tall by 8 inches wide; they live in good condition for up to five years and can be maintained indefinitely by rooting tip cuttings of […]