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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Donkey tail (Sedum morganianum)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Crown-of-thorns (Euphorbia milii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Crown-of-thorns (Euphorbia milii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH This sprawling, succulent, woody shrub hails from Madagascar. So, although its common name is picturesque and accurately describes its densely spiny stems, crown-of-thorns (Euphor- bia milii) was not the plant used in the crucifix- ion of Christ. Crown-of-thorns gets 2 feet tall, at most, indoors […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Chin cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Chin cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Cereus cactus (Cereus repandus) is generally 2 to 4 feet tall when grown as a houseplant. Its short but sharp spines are borne on columnar blue-green stems. Only large, older specimens will flower, but when they do, it is a show. The flowers are huge, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii) is the most widely grown houseplant cactus. It is a sculptural plant of great character and beauty, deeply furrowed and strongly ribbed. Dense golden spines on the tops of the ribs are long and straight, sometimes slightly curved, and occa- sionally […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Most of the time when you find a cactus labeled “ball cactus,” it will be one of the 25 or moreParodia species. As youngsters, all ball cacti are indeed round as a ball, but as they age they become columnar. They have deep furrows between raised […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH All the approximately 400 species and hybrids in Aloe are excellent container specimens, with showy, tubular flowers in brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows. But only a few of these desert-dwelling succulents make good house- plants. Of these, A. vera is the most popular. Oth- ers to […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Three of the approximately 450 species of aga- ves, many of them very attractive specimens, are often grown as houseplants. Parry’s agave (Agave parryi), like all its cousins, is an evergreen suc- culent perennial. It has stiff, thick, 12-inch-long steel-blue leaves shaped like broadswords and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans)

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 […]

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

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. […]

[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 […]

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