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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lady’s slipper (Paphiopedilum)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lady’s slipper (Paphiopedilum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Although this common name is applied to three different genera of orchids, the genus we’ll dis- cuss here is Paphiopedilum. Paphiopedilums are the best of all the lady’s slippers and the ones you’ll readily find in your local stores. They are among the easiest of […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Floral bracts in a wide array of colors—flaming scarlet, red, pink, orange, lavender, or yellow— form a globular inflorescence that stands above the handsome, glossy leaves of this popular bro- meliad. Guzmania plants (Guzmania lingulata,G. sanguinea, and numerous hybrids) are about 10 inches tall and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens) is a brome- liad common in garden centers, supermarkets, and big box stores. It’s a popular houseplant both for its impressive, bright red inflores- cence and for its colorful leaves, whose alter- nating cross-wise bands of maroon and silvery green look […]

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dendrobium is one of the largest genera of orchids, with more than 1,600 species and many, many hybrids, offering flowers in every color (except true blue). The growing requirements for so many different orchids are just as various. The specifications given here for growing den- […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dancing ladies (Oncidium spp.) are among the easiest orchids to grow successfully as house- plants. The plants are as beautiful as the flow- ers, and they can be relied on to repeat bloom so long as you provide them with the condi- tions they need. The […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Cymbidiums are attractive even when not in flower—something that cannot be said of many orchids. The trouble is, their huge size and need for low temperatures make standard cymbidiums (Cymbidium spp.) challenging as house- plants, and Asian miniature cymbidiums, although tiny, require high temperatures to […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Corsage orchid (Cattleya)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Corsage orchid (Cattleya)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Corsage orchids acquired their common name during the 1940s and ’50s when Cattleya cor- sages were all the rage among fashionable women of high society. First Lady Mamie Eisen- hower popularized them; she was rarely seen in public without a corsage of one or two […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spring bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spring bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Crocus, daffodils, grape hyacinths, hyacinths, and tulips will grace your home at a time when winter has a firm grip on the garden. Their riotous, happy colors in full bloom—red, pink, orange, yellow, blue, deep purple, lavender, and white—are a great tonic for chasing away […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rieger begonia (Begonia × hiemalis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Riegers (Begonia ×hiemalis) are a hybrid begonia strain created in 1955 by German plant breeder Otto Rieger, who crossed tuberous begonias (B.×tuberhybrida) and wax begonias (B. cucullata). The 2-inch-wide flowers are often perfect rep- licas, in miniature, of their fabulous parent the tuberous begonia, and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Persian violet (Exacum affine)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Persian violet (Exacum affine)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH When in full bloom Persian violet (Exacum affine) is a knockout. And it is very easy to grow—for a while. But if you acquire one as an impulse purchase, don’t be disappointed when it gives up the ghost despite your best efforts to keep it alive. […]

[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. […]

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