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 […]
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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: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH A well-grown croton (Codiaeum variegatum) is a brilliant focal point in any room. It’s an ever- green, or rather ever-colorful, shrub, and many of the hundreds of croton cultivars are choice houseplants. They are well worth the effort to keep them bright and happy. As […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Coontie (Zamia pumila) is a small, tough, very slow growing woody cycad. Because these plants thrive in sun or shade, have high drought tolerance, moderate salt tolerance, and are cold hardy to zone 9, coonties are widely used in outdoor landscaping. All these virtues combine […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH All citrus plants are species in or hybrids derived from the genera Citrus and Fortunella. Most are ancient accidental hybrids, which were discovered growing wild by humans a very long time ago—so long ago that no one remembers exactly where they came from. Botanists are […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Graceful and elegant, ti (Cordyline fruticosa) is beloved for its beautiful evergreen foliage in a wide variety of colors. A shrub, the plant has thin, strong, woody stems that, when grown as a houseplant, reach 4 to 5 feet tall. The strap-shaped 2-foot-long and 4-inch-wide leaves […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Pygmy date palm (Phoenix roebelenii) is grown everywhere as an ornamental in the interiorscaping of public buildings and as a house-plant in private homes, where it reaches only about 3 feet in height. The plant’s stout little stems are encased in fibrous brown leaf bases […]
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. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Parlor palms (Chamaedorea elegans and C. seifri- zii) are deservedly the most popular and widely grown indoor palms in the world. These beautiful, elegant little true palms are well adapted to indoor culture as houseplants. They were extremely popular during the Victorian era and remain […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The beautiful lady palm (Rhapis excelsa) enjoys great popularity in Europe and America. Its elegance adds a distinctly Asian note to your interiorscape. Like a classic movie star, it tolerates neglect and poor light with panache and goes right on being attractive. Widely used as […]
ENGLISH Both species, Howea forsteriana and H. belmor- eana, are large, single-trunked, slow-growing palms cultivated everywhere as large house- plants. Kentias were especially fashionable in the Victorian era and remain among the most popular indoor palms in the world. Today they are often a prominent feature of large open lob- bies and atriums of public […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH European fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) grows slowly as a houseplant, to about 4 feet tall. The plant is typically clump-forming, developing suckers from the base of the main trunk, an unusual trait among true palms. The cluster of stems eventually curves gracefully out and away […]