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 […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Super easy and low maintenance, donkey tail (Sedum morganianum) makes a delightfully odd companion because its long, dangling stems really do look like the thick tails of some animals—except that they’re gorgeous, waxy, and blue-green. The stems are clothed in hundreds of small, 0.75-inch-long, fleshy, blue-green, teardrop-shaped […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Christmas cacti (Schlumbergera russelliana, S.×buckleyi, and S. truncata) are true cacti, like their desert-dwelling cousins, but unlike them they are tropical evergreens. These leafless, spineless, shrubby epiphytes have jointed, flat- tened, leaf-like stems. Each joint of the stem is a flat, 1.5-inch-long pad with soft, […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH When in full bloom Persian violet (Exacum affine) is a knockout. And it is very easy to grow—for a while. But if you acquire one as an impulse purchase, don’t be disappointed when it gives up the ghost despite your best efforts to keep it alive. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Achimenes erecta with bright red flowers and A. longiflora with big blue flowers are two of the main species used to create the Cupid’s bow hybrids. This is another large group of house- plants with a pronounced dormant period. In winter the whole plant goes […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH People grow and love caladium (Caladium bicolor) for its fantastic foliage. The leaves are large and shaped like an arrowhead, very thin and delicate. The more than a thousand available cultivars offer every imaginable combination of color: flaming red, bright pink, white, and green. The […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Three different wandering Jews are commonly seen as fast-growing, easy, excellent house- plants, valued for their ability to clean indoor air. All three are in the genus Tradescantia (spider- worts), characterized by three-petaled flowers, and all three need the same cultural conditions. Like the Israelites […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Grape ivy (Cissus alata) is a tropical evergreen vine that climbs by means of tendrils. Indoors, in a pot, it can be kept to a manageable 2 feet tall with annual pruning in spring. Two other species, begonia vine (C. discolor) and kanga- roo vine […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping fig (Ficus pumila) is a modest little woody evergreen vine that forms tiny roots all along its stems. Vigorous and fast-growing, it is perfectly capable of engulfing stone walls and covering houses in mild-winter regions (zones 9 through 11). As a houseplant, it will […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Philodendrons are superstars of the houseplant world. They’ve been popular for many decades, and deservedly so, because they’re perfectly comfortable living in the same environments as humans. Not only are they lovely to look at, they tolerate being moved with aplomb. You can relocate them […]
Nguồn: [Ebook Việt Hoá] Plant parenting: Easy ways to make more houseplants, vegetables, and flowers – LESLIE F. HALLECK (Nhân giống cây: Những cách dễ nhất để nhân giống cây cảnh trong nhà, rau và hoa) Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 08/20201) Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English Once your seedlings emerge and begin developing new leaves, or […]
Nguồn: Sách tiếng Anh bản cứng: The indestructible houseplant: 200 beautiful plants that everyone can grow – Tovah Martin Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 10/2021) Dịch: Quỳnh Nhi English Sometimes I just want to wing out. You know the feeling. You’ve been wearing a drab A-line skirt and plain jacket over a button-down […]