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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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- […]
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: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Bird’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus) is a gorgeous true fern, though it doesn’t look like one. Its long, strap-shaped leaves sprout directly from a very short, mostly underground rhizome. Leaves aren’t divided or compound or even ferny. They are bright chartreuse-green, like a Granny Smith […]
Nguồn: [Ebook Việt Hoá] Plant parenting: Easy ways to make more houseplants, vegetables, and flowers – LESLIE F. HALLECK (Nhân giống cây: Những cách dễ nhất để nhân giống cây cảnh trong nhà, rau và hoa) Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 08/20201) Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English When buying or mixing your own potting soil or soilless […]
Nguồn: [Ebook] The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home – Tovah Martin Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 02/2022) Dịch: Team Codai.net Introduction (Giới thiệu) Autumn (mùa Thu) Acalyphas (Acalypha, chi Cỏ Tai Tượng) Calla Lilies (Zantedeschia, chi Vân Môn) Cissus (chi Hồ Đằng) Citrus (chi Cam Chanh) Coleus (chi Lá […]