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 […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Tillandsia is a large genus of small, primarily rootless wonders that are grown as house- plants pinned, tied, or glued onto slabs of bark, branches, or driftwood, and then hung on a wall or suspended in mid-air. The exception is pink quill (T. cyanea), which […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A well-grown spider orchid (Brassia gireoudi- ana) in full flower is an astonishing sight. The plant looks like it comes from outer space. The flowers are amazing, bizarre, fascinating. They’re huge, as much as 1 foot from top to bot- tom, with extremely skinny and spidery […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Floral bracts in a wide array of colors—flaming scarlet, red, pink, orange, lavender, or yellow— form a globular inflorescence that stands above the handsome, glossy leaves of this popular bro- meliad. Guzmania plants (Guzmania lingulata,G. sanguinea, and numerous hybrids) are about 10 inches tall and […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dendrobium is one of the largest genera of orchids, with more than 1,600 species and many, many hybrids, offering flowers in every color (except true blue). The growing requirements for so many different orchids are just as various. The specifications given here for growing den- […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Corsage orchids acquired their common name during the 1940s and ’50s when Cattleya cor- sages were all the rage among fashionable women of high society. First Lady Mamie Eisen- hower popularized them; she was rarely seen in public without a corsage of one or two […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Riegers (Begonia ×hiemalis) are a hybrid begonia strain created in 1955 by German plant breeder Otto Rieger, who crossed tuberous begonias (B.×tuberhybrida) and wax begonias (B. cucullata). The 2-inch-wide flowers are often perfect rep- licas, in miniature, of their fabulous parent the tuberous begonia, and […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH When in full bloom Persian violet (Exacum affine) is a knockout. And it is very easy to grow—for a while. But if you acquire one as an impulse purchase, don’t be disappointed when it gives up the ghost despite your best efforts to keep it alive. […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Achimenes erecta with bright red flowers and A. longiflora with big blue flowers are two of the main species used to create the Cupid’s bow hybrids. This is another large group of house- plants with a pronounced dormant period. In winter the whole plant goes […]