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 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 Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia amoena, D. seguine, and hybrids between these and other species) is among the most popular houseplants, because, like many aroids, it has beautiful foliage and is readily available, inexpensive, and easy to grow. It’s a shrubby plant that typically gets 6 feet […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Dragon tree (Dracaena reflexa var. angustifolia) is one of the most popular of all houseplants. It’s beautiful, inexpensive, and widely available, and many people believe it somehow brings good fortune. This easy-to-grow, low-maintenance, shrubby plant looks like a Dr. Seuss tree with crooked stems topped […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis) is well known for its outdoor hardiness (to zone 8), but more and more it is used in interiorscaping, especially in shopping malls and other public buildings. It does well in pots, and as a house- plant, it grows very […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Happy Nguyen ENGLISH Lush, large, and beautiful, the various species of banana plants, including hardy banana (Musa basjoo) and Ensete ventricosum, instantly cre- ate a tropical ambiance in any home. These are big, bold, rock stars—plants that stand out in any crowd. These plants are so charismatic, their […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Happy Nguyen ENGLISH Areca palms (Dypsis lutescens) are relatively fast-growing, multi-trunked, clumping true palms with many slender stems that sweep out and away from the center of the plant, creat1ing an atmosphere of tropical abundance. The stems are smooth, yellow-green, and ringed by leaf scars, which gives them […]