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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus) is a strange little desert succulent, a botanical oddity that looks exactly like its common name, except that the pearls are green—like a string of peas. Long, trailing, string-like stems hang down around all sides of the pot and it’s […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Streptocarpus (Streptocarpus × hybridus)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Streptocarpus (Streptocarpus × hybridus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Gorgeous large flowers hover on wiry stems above a flat rosette of hairy, wrinkled leaves in these unusual plants. Many of these tropical evergreens are in cultivation, but the primary ones grown as houseplants are Streptocarpus×hybridus. These complex hybrids derive fromS. dunnii, S. johannis, and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Selloum (Philodendron bipinnatifidum)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Selloum (Philodendron bipinnatifidum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Selloum (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), like other Philodendron species, is an excellent houseplant, well adapted to the reduced light and warm nights of our homes. You’ll also frequently find this plant in shopping malls, hospitals, and lobbies of public buildings, where it creates a tropical jungle ambiance. It’s […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rex begonia (Begonia rex)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rex begonia (Begonia rex)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Begonia rex has been used extensively in hybridization with Begonia masoniana and other species and hybrids to give rise to the Rex Cultorum group of complex hybrids, known collectively as rex begonias. Rex begonias, with their showstopping foliage, are the kings of the begonia world. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura) is a low- growing, rhizomatous houseplant prized for its beautiful evergreen foliage. Whenever it gets dark, it rolls its striking leaves up into cylinders and holds them erect, as if in evening prayer. In the morning, or when you turn the […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The short-lived polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya) is grown for its unusual and often colorful foliage. The 2-inch-long leaves look almost as though they’ve been painted with white, red, or (the favorite) pink enamel, shot through with green veins and random green polka dots. As […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH A major contributor to poinsettia’s popularity is the fact that it can be brought into bloom at will by growers simply by manipulating day-length. This, in combination with flaming red “flowers” and deep green leaves, more or less predestined poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) to become wildly […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii)

 Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Most good houseplants are tropical, adapted to warm nighttime temperatures and rainforest conditions. Piggy-back plant (Tolmiea menziesii) is an exception. The maritime climate from which this native Pacific Northwesterner hails is very different from the typical home environment, and yet piggy-back plant holds its […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peacock plant (Calathea lancifolia, Calathea makoyana, Calathea rufibarba, and Calathea zebrina)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peacock plant (Calathea lancifolia, Calathea makoyana, Calathea rufibarba, and Calathea zebrina)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The aptly named peacock plant struts its strik- ing evergreen foliage with panache. Commonly grown species include Calathea lancifolia, C. makoyana, C. rufibarba, and C. zebrina. These tropical beauties and their numerous hybrids can be a little demanding with their water and humidity needs but […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Peace lily (Spathiphyllum spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum spp.), like so many aroids, are among the easiest and most reliable of all houseplants, blooming regularly with minimum fuss and tolerating a certain amount of benign neglect with aplomb. If your plant wilts because you forgot to water it, it will […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis) is a creeping houseplant grown for its dramatic evergreen foliage. Each leaf displays an intricate, lace-like network of veins in white, magenta-pink, or red that contrasts beautifully with the dark olive-green background. The resulting intense color patterns invite closer inspection. It’s […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans) is a vine-like evergreen perennial that grows to perfection in hanging baskets. The 2-foot-long stems arch gracefully out and down, away from the center of the plant. Cutting the stems back by not more than one-third encourages side branching and makes […]

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