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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Donkey tail (Sedum morganianum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Super easy and low maintenance, donkey tail (Sedum morganianum) makes a delightfully odd companion because its long, dangling stems really do look like the thick tails of some animals—except that they’re gorgeous, waxy, and blue-green. The stems are clothed in hundreds of small, 0.75-inch-long, fleshy, blue-green, teardrop-shaped […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Crown-of-thorns (Euphorbia milii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Crown-of-thorns (Euphorbia milii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH This sprawling, succulent, woody shrub hails from Madagascar. So, although its common name is picturesque and accurately describes its densely spiny stems, crown-of-thorns (Euphor- bia milii) was not the plant used in the crucifix- ion of Christ. Crown-of-thorns gets 2 feet tall, at most, indoors […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Chin cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Chin cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Most popular varieties of chin cactus (Gym- nocalycium mihanovichii) have an odd appear- ance. They look like a spiny, bright red baseball stuck on top of a green stick. The red balls are natural mutants that have no green chloro- phyll in their tissues. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus) is generally 2 to 4 feet tall when grown as a houseplant. Its short but sharp spines are borne on columnar blue-green stems. Only large, older specimens will flower, but when they do, it is a show. The flowers are huge, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii) is the most widely grown houseplant cactus. It is a sculptural plant of great character and beauty, deeply furrowed and strongly ribbed. Dense golden spines on the tops of the ribs are long and straight, sometimes slightly curved, and occa- sionally […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Most of the time when you find a cactus labeled “ball cactus,” it will be one of the 25 or moreParodia species. As youngsters, all ball cacti are indeed round as a ball, but as they age they become columnar. They have deep furrows between raised […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Aloe

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Aloe

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH All the approximately 400 species and hybrids in Aloe are excellent container specimens, with showy, tubular flowers in brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows. But only a few of these desert-dwelling succulents make good house- plants. Of these, A. vera is the most popular. Oth- ers to […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Three of the approximately 450 species of aga- ves, many of them very attractive specimens, are often grown as houseplants. Parry’s agave (Agave parryi), like all its cousins, is an evergreen suc- culent perennial. It has stiff, thick, 12-inch-long steel-blue leaves shaped like broadswords and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Earthstar (Cryptanthus acaulis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The commonly cultivated earthstars Cryptan- thus acaulis and C. zonatus are bromeliads grown strictly for their foliage. Their starry, wavy-edged and sharply spiny leaves come in shades of red, rose, pink, green, and brown— even nearly black with silver. The stiff leaves are longitudinally striped […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Freesia (Freesia corymbosa, Freesia laxa, Freesia refracta)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Freesia (Freesia corymbosa, Freesia laxa, Freesia refracta)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Freesias are herbaceous perennials from bulb-like corms that have the same growth habit as spring bulbs; they’re in active growth during cool, wet winter/spring weather, and they go dormant in hot, dry summers. The ones treasured as temporary houseplants are all hybrids derived from Freesia corymbosa, F. laxa, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Florist azalea (Rhododendron)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A classic Mother’s Day gift, the florist azalea is a hybrid evergreen shrub derived from various Rhododendron species. Unlike deciduous aza- leas, these evergreen types are not hardy and cannot tolerate freezing temperatures. They are grown in greenhouses and forced into bloom as spring holiday gifts. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cupid’s bow (Achimenes erecta)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cupid’s bow (Achimenes erecta)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Achimenes erecta with bright red flowers and A. longiflora with big blue flowers are two of the main species used to create the Cupid’s bow hybrids. This is another large group of house- plants with a pronounced dormant period. In winter the whole plant goes […]

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