Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Gold lace cactus (Mammillaria elongata) is deceptively small. It begins life in your home with individual stems that look like fingers, each about 6 inches long and 1 inch thick. Soon it begins to produce pups around the base of the stem. These produce more […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Easter cacti (Hatiora gaertneri, H. rosea, and their cross, H. ×graeseri) are true cacti, but they do not live in the desert. Like orchids and bro- meliads, these tropical evergreens are shrubby epiphytes, and in nature they live on tree branches, high in the cool, […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Christmas cacti (Schlumbergera russelliana, S.×buckleyi, and S. truncata) are true cacti, like their desert-dwelling cousins, but unlike them they are tropical evergreens. These leafless, spineless, shrubby epiphytes have jointed, flat- tened, leaf-like stems. Each joint of the stem is a flat, 1.5-inch-long pad with soft, […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata) is a big (2 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide), bold, extremely attractive bromeliad with an astonishingly bright, shocking pink inflorescence. Its numerous 18 to 36-inch-long, 2-inch-wide, stiff and leathery leaves are silver with gray-green bands. Some cultivars have creamy […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Tillandsia is a large genus of small, primarily rootless wonders that are grown as house- plants pinned, tied, or glued onto slabs of bark, branches, or driftwood, and then hung on a wall or suspended in mid-air. The exception is pink quill (T. cyanea), which […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A well-grown spider orchid (Brassia gireoudi- ana) in full flower is an astonishing sight. The plant looks like it comes from outer space. The flowers are amazing, bizarre, fascinating. They’re huge, as much as 1 foot from top to bot- tom, with extremely skinny and spidery […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans) is so beautiful and so easy to grow, it is no wonder it is such a popular houseplant. Plants grow 16 to 18 inches tall and 30 inches wide and are par- ticularly attractive in a hanging pot or basket, where the […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Gorgeous, elegant, and sophisticated are the adjectives that spring to mind when describ- ing these lovely orchids, whose popularity has exploded in recent years. Well-grown pansy orchids (Miltoniopsis hybrids) have long, wiry flower stalks that arch up, out, and down from the center of […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH These bromeliads are grown primarily for their very showy and colorful foliage. Neorege- lia carolinae is the most commonly cultivated species. Plants are 2 feet wide and half as tall, flat-topped, with a rosette of 1.5-inch-wide, 12-inch-long, strap-shaped leaves striped like ribbon candy with creamy white. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Moth orchids are species and hybrids in the gen- era Phalaenopsis and Doritis, and their interge- neric cross, ×Doritaenopsis. All are epiphytes in nature (they never grow in soil), and any one of the many available kinds would be a sophis- ticated addition to your home. […]