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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Caladium (Caladium bicolor)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH People grow and love caladium (Caladium bicolor) for its fantastic foliage. The leaves are large and shaped like an arrowhead, very thin and delicate. The more than a thousand available cultivars offer every imaginable combination of color: flaming red, bright pink, white, and green. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Maidenhair fern (Adiantum spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Maidenhair ferns (Adiantum spp.) have a well- deserved reputation for being persnickety, but boy do they deliver in the houseplant categories of “distinctive character” and “strong sculptural quality.” Their demands are simple, but they are also uncompromising. Give them what they want or they’ll die. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Holly fern (Cyrtomium falcatum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Holly fern (Cyrtomium falcatum) is quite beau- tiful, with long leaves that resemble mahonias (Oregon grape) or a less prickly holly tree. And it’s easy to grow. It is unusual for such a cold tolerant plant (zones 6 through 10) to succeed as a houseplant. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Hare’s foot fern (Phlebodium aureum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Hare’s foot fern (Phlebodium aureum) is so called for its creeping rhizome, 0.5 to 1 inch thick and densely clothed in golden brown, fur-like scales, very much resembling the tiny paw of a hare. This really is a classic fern in looks and habit: large, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Bird’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Bird’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus) is a gorgeous true fern, though it doesn’t look like one. Its long, strap-shaped leaves sprout directly from a very short, mostly underground rhizome. Leaves aren’t divided or compound or even ferny. They are bright chartreuse-green, like a Granny Smith […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Wax plant (Hoya carnosa)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH People have cultivated wax plant (Hoya carnosa) for 200 years. That this semi-succulent subtrop- ical vine so often survives neglect in doctor’s offices and dim parlor corners is testament to its durability. You will be astonished when it trans- forms itself by bursting into fragrant […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Wandering Jew (Tradescantia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Three different wandering Jews are commonly seen as fast-growing, easy, excellent house- plants, valued for their ability to clean indoor air. All three are in the genus Tradescantia (spider- worts), characterized by three-petaled flowers, and all three need the same cultural conditions. Like the Israelites […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) is often consid- ered the easiest and most foolproof of all house- plants. It has shiny, gold-flecked, heart-shaped leaves on trailing stems that get 8 feet long and dangle from a hanging basket or a container on a high shelf. Most are […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The attractive evergreen leaves of jasmine (Jas- minum polyanthum) are pinnately compound (feather-like) with five to seven leaflets that are bright green on the upper surface and lighter green on the undersurface. Indoors, this robust twining vine accommodates itself very well to a container, wrapping […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Grape ivy (Cissus alata)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Grape ivy (Cissus alata) is a tropical evergreen vine that climbs by means of tendrils. Indoors, in a pot, it can be kept to a manageable 2 feet tall with annual pruning in spring. Two other species, begonia vine (C. discolor) and kanga- roo vine […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Creeping fig (Ficus pumila)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping fig (Ficus pumila) is a modest little woody evergreen vine that forms tiny roots all along its stems. Vigorous and fast-growing, it is perfectly capable of engulfing stone walls and covering houses in mild-winter regions (zones 9 through 11). As a houseplant, it will […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Blushing and heartleaf philodendrons (Philodendron erubescens)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Philodendrons are superstars of the houseplant world. They’ve been popular for many decades, and deservedly so, because they’re perfectly comfortable living in the same environments as humans. Not only are they lovely to look at, they tolerate being moved with aplomb. You can relocate them […]

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