Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) is a perennial that keeps on giving. Plant one out in your garden and before you know it, you will have thousands of them. As a houseplant, it is just as generous but much more controllable— though you’ll still have to […]
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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: 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 […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH African violets (Saintpaulia spp.) are easily, and deservedly, the most popular houseplant in the world. People love them because they flower all year long, the jewel-like blossoms come in a rainbow of luscious colors, and the plants are small, compact, and easy to grow. They […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Each large, attractive leaf of umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla) and dwarf umbrella tree (S. arboricola) has seven to 11 or more leaf- lets all attached to the same point at the tip of the petiole (leaf stalk). The leaflets radiate from the center and droop […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Every November markets are flooded with mil- lions of tiny living Christmas trees in 4-inch pots. The trees are sprinkled with glitter, some- times sprayed with green paint, and decorated with ribbons and little glass bulbs. These little seedlings of Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria het- […]
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 […]
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: 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: 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. […]