Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina), a fast-growing, broadleaf evergreen with gracefully drooping branchlets, well deserves a place of honor in any home. It’s one of the most popular house- plants in the world—relatively low-maintenance, readily available, and very beautiful—but it is unlikely to produce its edible, tiny, […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Rubber tree is indeed a tree, and it does in fact produce rubber; however, it is actually a fig, Ficus elastica, and in common with the rest of the species in the banyan group of figs, it readily grows aerial roots from its branches. As […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH This extremely slow growing, very tough plant will live in your home for many years, providing a distinctly Asian accent. Sago palm (Cycas revoluta) looks like a palm, but isn’t, and looks like a fern, but isn’t. It’s a cycad, an ancient family of plants […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH A big, bold, dramatic houseplant that makes a beautiful addition to any room, fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata) is easy to grow and low mainte- nance. You frequently see it as a large specimen plant or focal point in offices, malls, or other large public buildings […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Coontie (Zamia pumila) is a small, tough, very slow growing woody cycad. Because these plants thrive in sun or shade, have high drought tolerance, moderate salt tolerance, and are cold hardy to zone 9, coonties are widely used in outdoor landscaping. All these virtues combine […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH All citrus plants are species in or hybrids derived from the genera Citrus and Fortunella. Most are ancient accidental hybrids, which were discovered growing wild by humans a very long time ago—so long ago that no one remembers exactly where they came from. Botanists are […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Graceful and elegant, ti (Cordyline fruticosa) is beloved for its beautiful evergreen foliage in a wide variety of colors. A shrub, the plant has thin, strong, woody stems that, when grown as a houseplant, reach 4 to 5 feet tall. The strap-shaped 2-foot-long and 4-inch-wide leaves […]
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: Happy Nguyen ENGLISH Lush, large, and beautiful, the various species of banana plants, including hardy banana (Musa basjoo) and Ensete ventricosum, instantly cre- ate a tropical ambiance in any home. These are big, bold, rock stars—plants that stand out in any crowd. These plants are so charismatic, their […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Division, cuttings, and layering are tried and true methods of asexual propagation that make exact copies of your parent plant. Each plant portrait in this book tells you which propagation technique(s) can be used for that particular plant. You should be aware, however, that many […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Most people want to replace their houseplant’s original pot with something more attractive. After all, your companion plant should fit into your decor in a container that complements your home and those cheap, thin-walled plastic pots that come from the nursery don’t quite reach the […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên TIẾNG ANH Success with a particular houseplant depends on knowing the daily temperature regime (day- time high and nighttime low) that plant needs to flourish under your care. Fortunately, plants are fairly forgiving and will adjust to day or night temperatures within a range of about […]