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 […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The huge and utterly fascinating orchid world contains thousands of fully fertile complex hybrids made between species in different gen- era. Beallaras and alicearas are in the Odon- toglossum/Oncidium alliance. Many of these hybrid genera in this alliance were named after the first orchid breeder […]
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. […]
Nguồn: [Ebook Việt Hoá] Healing houseplants (Michelle Polk) (Cây chữa bệnh trồng trong nhà) Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English Calendula officinalis Also known as pot marigolds, calendula plants are beautiful, edible flowers that are reliable and easy to grow. However, don’t get them confused with the common marigold, as they are […]
Nguồn: [Ebook Việt Hoá] Grown in the Dark (Lisa Eldred Steinkopf) (Trồng cây trong Bóng Tối) Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Team Codai.net English Other Common Names Ribbon plant, curly bamboo, Chinese water bamboo Botanical Name Dracaena sanderiana Lucky bamboo—which is not a bamboo at all, but a dracaena—has been popular since it first […]
Nguồn: [Ebook Việt Hoá] Grown in the Dark (Lisa Eldred Steinkopf) (Trồng cây trong Bóng Tối) Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Team Codai.net English Other Common Names Pin stripe prayer plant Botanical Name Calathea ornata The beautiful foliage of this plant is its main attraction—who wouldn’t love its pink pin stripes? It is often […]