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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The short-lived polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya) is grown for its unusual and often colorful foliage. The 2-inch-long leaves look almost as though they’ve been painted with white, red, or (the favorite) pink enamel, shot through with green veins and random green polka dots. As […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH A major contributor to poinsettia’s popularity is the fact that it can be brought into bloom at will by growers simply by manipulating day-length. This, in combination with flaming red “flowers” and deep green leaves, more or less predestined poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) to become wildly […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii)

 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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peacock plant (Calathea lancifolia, Calathea makoyana, Calathea rufibarba, and Calathea zebrina)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peacock plant (Calathea lancifolia, Calathea makoyana, Calathea rufibarba, and Calathea zebrina)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The aptly named peacock plant struts its strik- ing evergreen foliage with panache. Commonly grown species include Calathea lancifolia, C. makoyana, C. rufibarba, and C. zebrina. These tropical beauties and their numerous hybrids can be a little demanding with their water and humidity needs but […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peace lily (Spathiphyllum spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum spp.), like so many aroids, are among the easiest and most reliable of all houseplants, blooming regularly with minimum fuss and tolerating a certain amount of benign neglect with aplomb. If your plant wilts because you forgot to water it, it will […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans) is a vine-like evergreen perennial that grows to perfection in hanging baskets. The 2-foot-long stems arch gracefully out and down, away from the center of the plant. Cutting the stems back by not more than one-third encourages side branching and makes […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Goldfish plant (Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, Neomortonia nummularia)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Goldfish plant (Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, Neomortonia nummularia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH All goldfish plants—Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, and Neomortonia nummularia—are trailing evergreen perennials that grow very well in hanging baskets. The small leaves are thick and waxy, glossy in some, fuzzy in others. Leaf color is usually a crisp bright green but can be dark green, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Geranium (Pelargonium)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Biên dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The geraniums we grow as houseplants in the United States are species and cultivars of the genus Pelargonium. All are evergreen perennials whose original home was South Africa, so they are all frost-tender. These include scented-leaf geraniums (various species with strongly aromatic foliage), zonal geraniums […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flamingo flower (Anthurium spp.)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flamingo flower (Anthurium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH What’s not to love about a plant that grows slowly, likes the warmth and reduced light of our homes, and whose flowers last for months? Flamingo flowers (Anthurium spp.) are, in many ways, perfect flowering houseplants, and even when not in bloom, their heart-shaped foliage […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: False shamrock (Oxalis triangularis)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: False shamrock (Oxalis triangularis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Don’t confuse false shamrock (Oxalis triangularis) with either its weedy relative, Oxalis corniculata, or true Irish shamrock (Trifolium dubium), both of which have yellow flowers. False sham- rock is neither invasive nor weedy, and its dainty flowers are white or pale pink. It is endemic […]

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