Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping fig (Ficus pumila) is a modest little woody evergreen vine that forms tiny roots all along its stems. Vigorous and fast-growing, it is perfectly capable of engulfing stone walls and covering houses in mild-winter regions (zones 9 through 11). As a houseplant, it will […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Philodendrons are superstars of the houseplant world. They’ve been popular for many decades, and deservedly so, because they’re perfectly comfortable living in the same environments as humans. Not only are they lovely to look at, they tolerate being moved with aplomb. You can relocate them […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Biên dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH One of the easiest, lowest maintenance house- plants of all, arrowhead plant (Syngonium podophyllum) has been cultivated indoors for a long time. It is especially nice in hanging baskets, which show its gracefully draping vining stems to best advantage. Alternatively, it can be attached to […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH In many ways Zanzibar gem (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) is the ideal houseplant. It’s very slow growing, tough, easy to grow, low maintenance, and resistant to insect attack. In addition to all its maintenance merits, the plant is really pretty. This is an evergreen foliage plant, not […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus) is a strange little desert succulent, a botanical oddity that looks exactly like its common name, except that the pearls are green—like a string of peas. Long, trailing, string-like stems hang down around all sides of the pot and it’s […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Selloum (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), like other Philodendron species, is an excellent houseplant, well adapted to the reduced light and warm nights of our homes. You’ll also frequently find this plant in shopping malls, hospitals, and lobbies of public buildings, where it creates a tropical jungle ambiance. It’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (Có vấn đề gì với cây trong nhà của tôi?) - David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth, Chi Calathea (Goeppertia) - Chi Đuôi Công
[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 […]
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 […]