Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Every plant portrait lists the most common problems that occur for each plant. However, you may encounter less common problems as well. If something is not quite right with your plants and you’ve ruled out a pest or dis- ease, look at the photos and read […]
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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Culinary Herbs (Thảo mộc gia vị)
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH What a delight it is to harvest fresh herbs from pots lining your kitchen windowsills. No won- der then that so many people grow certain herbs as houseplants, even if only as temporary ones. All, including many scented-leaf gerani- ums (page 96), have scented, aromatic […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Prickly pear (Opuntia spp.) is the familiar cactus with flat pads that look like the ears on a Mickey Mouse hat. You’ve probably seen it in dozens of cowboy movies and western landscape paint- ings. The origin of the common name is obvi- ous: both […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH This sprawling, succulent, woody shrub hails from Madagascar. So, although its common name is picturesque and accurately describes its densely spiny stems, crown-of-thorns (Euphor- bia milii) was not the plant used in the crucifix- ion of Christ. Crown-of-thorns gets 2 feet tall, at most, indoors […]
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 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 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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens) is a brome- liad common in garden centers, supermarkets, and big box stores. It’s a popular houseplant both for its impressive, bright red inflores- cence and for its colorful leaves, whose alter- nating cross-wise bands of maroon and silvery green look […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dancing ladies (Oncidium spp.) are among the easiest orchids to grow successfully as house- plants. The plants are as beautiful as the flow- ers, and they can be relied on to repeat bloom so long as you provide them with the condi- tions they need. The […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The huge and utterly fascinating orchid world contains thousands of fully fertile complex hybrids made between species in different gen- era. Beallaras and alicearas are in the Odon- toglossum/Oncidium alliance. Many of these hybrid genera in this alliance were named after the first orchid breeder […]