Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH All goldfish plants—Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, and Neomortonia nummularia—are trailing evergreen perennials that grow very well in hanging baskets. The small leaves are thick and waxy, glossy in some, fuzzy in others. Leaf color is usually a crisp bright green but can be dark green, […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Biên dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The geraniums we grow as houseplants in the United States are species and cultivars of the genus Pelargonium. All are evergreen perennials whose original home was South Africa, so they are all frost-tender. These include scented-leaf geraniums (various species with strongly aromatic foliage), zonal geraniums […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Don’t confuse false shamrock (Oxalis triangularis) with either its weedy relative, Oxalis corniculata, or true Irish shamrock (Trifolium dubium), both of which have yellow flowers. False sham- rock is neither invasive nor weedy, and its dainty flowers are white or pale pink. It is endemic […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) is a perennial that keeps on giving. Plant one out in your garden and before you know it, you will have thousands of them. As a houseplant, it is just as generous but much more controllable— though you’ll still have to […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The slow-growing clivia (Clivia miniata) has 2-foot-long, 2-inch-wide, dark evergreen, strap-shaped leaves. These arch out gracefully, seemingly direct from the potting medium. There are stems, but they are short and com- pletely covered by the foliage. Underground, the plant has long, ropy rhizomes. Mature, well-grown specimens […]
ENGLISH Angel wing begonias are easy, gorgeous year-round houseplants that bloom profusely with drooping clusters of small brightly col- ored flowers. The original was a hybrid betweenBegonia aconitifolia and B. coccinea created by California plant breeder Eva Kenworthy Gray in 1926. Since that cross, many more have been made with several other species, and hundreds of […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) is the state flower of Hawaii, and almost every advertise- ment for a vacation in that paradise features a beautiful Hawaiian woman with a brilliant Technicolor hibiscus flower tucked behind her ear. Those gorgeous, evocatively tropical flow- ers, the biggest of any plant […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Flowering maple (Abutilon ×hybridum) is a fast-growing, broadleaf evergreen shrub with long twiggy stems that bend and arch under the weight of the flowers. It acquired its common name because the leaves have the same shape as maple leaves and because it has pretty flow- ers. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Pygmy date palm (Phoenix roebelenii) is grown everywhere as an ornamental in the interiorscaping of public buildings and as a house-plant in private homes, where it reaches only about 3 feet in height. The plant’s stout little stems are encased in fibrous brown leaf bases […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Commercial fertilizer packages often describe their contents as “plant food.” This is a mis- nomer. Fertilizer contains mineral nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that plants require for growth, but any plant’s actual food, what they actually eat, is the sugar they make from […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Spectacular flowers, in eye-catching colors and as velvety soft as a horse’s nose, almost guaran- tee impulse purchases of gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa). How could anyone pass this houseplant up when it is in full gorgeous bloom? Gloxinias strongly resemble their cousins, African violets, except that […]
Biên dịch: Huyền Nguyễn Biên tập hình ảnh và dàn trang: Dũng Cá Xinh IV – CHĂM SÓC VÀ NHÂN GIỐNG – CARE AND CULTIVATION 05. Bón phân cho cây (Feeding your plants) Đặt cây trồng trong nhà của bạn ở nơi mà chúng có thể hấp thu đầy đủ chất dinh dưỡng cần thiết […]