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 The most widespread and commonly avail- able tiger jaws is Faucaria tigrina, with F. felinaa close second. The name of the genus comes from the Latin fauces (“animal mouth”), and the leaves, borne in opposite pairs, do indeed look like the gaping maw of an animal’s mouth, […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH We’ve grown this plant, our mothers grew it, and so did our grandmothers. It’s been very pop- ular for a long time. And deservedly so, because it is a handsome plant with a pronounced ver- tical presence; and it is both easy to grow and […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH This is another epiphytic cactus, but unlike Christmas cactus, Easter cactus, and orchid cac- tus, rat tail cactus (Disocactus flagelliformis) is spiny, and vehemently so. The shallowly ridged, cylindrical stems are so densely clothed in whitish, orange-brown, or golden yellow spines that sometimes you can barely […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Super easy to grow and tolerant of benign neglect, panda plant (Kalanchoe tomentosa) is among the most forgiving of all houseplants. It is a succulent, with thick, water-storing leaves, so it doesn’t need much water, and it’s very well adapted to the dry air of […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH There are more than 7,000 named hybrids and species in this cactus group, all with huge, stunningly gorgeous flowers in every shade of purple-red, red, pink, orange, apricot, yellow, white, and multicolor blends. Orchid cacti are mainly Epiphyllum species and their selections but also intergeneric hybrids […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Kalanchoes (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) are attrac- tive little plants that appear in full bloom by the thousands every winter holiday season. They have very large clusters of very small flowers in brilliant shades of red, pink, orange, white, and yellow. Some people choose to treat kalan- choe […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A handsome small tree with multiple trunks, sturdy limbs, and succulent leaves, the jade plant (Crassula ovata) is a beloved and common sight in homes everywhere, as well as in offices, pub- lic buildings, and shopping malls. Sometimes sculpted and almost bonsai-like, these plants develop […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Numerous species and hybrids in the genus Ech- everia are called hen and chicks, including E. elegans and E. secunda. These little evergreen beauties are easy to grow and very low mainte- nance. They make splendid potted plants, with a basal rosette of leaves that looks […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Gold lace cactus (Mammillaria elongata) is deceptively small. It begins life in your home with individual stems that look like fingers, each about 6 inches long and 1 inch thick. Soon it begins to produce pups around the base of the stem. These produce more […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Easter cacti (Hatiora gaertneri, H. rosea, and their cross, H. ×graeseri) are true cacti, but they do not live in the desert. Like orchids and bro- meliads, these tropical evergreens are shrubby epiphytes, and in nature they live on tree branches, high in the cool, […]
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 […]