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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Bird’s nest philodendron (Philodendron auriculatum, Philodendron deflexum)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Angel Wing Begonia (Begonia × corallina)

ENGLISH Angel wing begonias are easy, gorgeous year-round houseplants that bloom profusely with drooping clusters of small brightly col- ored flowers. The original was a hybrid betweenBegonia aconitifolia and B. coccinea created by California plant breeder Eva Kenworthy Gray in 1926. Since that cross, many more have been made with several other species, and hundreds of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Aluminum plant (Pilea cadierei)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: African violet (Saintpaulia spp.)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Zebra plant (Aphelandra squarrosa)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Zebra plant (Aphelandra squarrosa) is an almost irresistibly gorgeous woody, broadleaf evergreen shrub. The striped foliage alone is a traffic- stopper, and when it’s in bloom it knocks your socks off. But it’s a cranky little devil—a real chal- lenge to keep it alive in […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina), a fast-growing, broadleaf evergreen with gracefully drooping branchlets, well deserves a place of honor in any home. It’s one of the most popular house- plants in the world—relatively low-maintenance, readily available, and very beautiful—but it is unlikely to produce its edible, tiny, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flowering maple (Abutilon × hybridum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Flowering maple (Abutilon ×hybridum) is a fast-growing, broadleaf evergreen shrub with long twiggy stems that bend and arch under the weight of the flowers. It acquired its common name because the leaves have the same shape as maple leaves and because it has pretty flow- ers. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ti (Cordyline fruticosa)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pygmy date palm (Phoenix roebelenii)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pony-tail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata)

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. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans, Chamaedorea seifrizii)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa)

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 […]

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