Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH It’s pretty rare for plants from different genera to cross successfully, but tree ivy is just such an intergeneric hybrid, first created in 1912, at the Lizé Frères tree nursery in Nantes, France. One parent is Japanese aralia and the other is ivy. A shrub […]
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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 Every November markets are flooded with mil- lions of tiny living Christmas trees in 4-inch pots. The trees are sprinkled with glitter, some- times sprayed with green paint, and decorated with ribbons and little glass bulbs. These little seedlings of Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria het- […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Japanese aralia (Fatsia japonica) was introduced into cultivation in the western world in the early 1800s and has been a popular houseplant ever since. It adds tropical flair to any room. This big, bold, burly foliage plant is especially desirable because it does well in […]
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: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH The touchy gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) is almost worth growing for the pretty leaves alone. But it’s the intensely fragrant pure white flowers that lure you to it. Their heady, tropical, unforgettable scent fills a room, making garde- nia absolutely irresistible despite its demanding nature. Indoors, in […]
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 False aralia (Schefflera elegantissima) is tall, upright, and bushy, with very attractive seven- to 11-fingered evergreen palmately compound leaves. The beautiful leaflets are nearly black, knobby, and spidery thin—so thin that false ara- lia is considered a see-through plant, whose lacy foliage is never so […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH A well-grown croton (Codiaeum variegatum) is a brilliant focal point in any room. It’s an ever- green, or rather ever-colorful, shrub, and many of the hundreds of croton cultivars are choice houseplants. They are well worth the effort to keep them bright and happy. As […]
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 […]