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[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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Goldfish plant (Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, Neomortonia nummularia)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Goldfish plant (Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, Neomortonia nummularia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH All goldfish plants—Nematanthus wettsteinii, Columnea gloriosa, and Neomortonia nummularia—are trailing evergreen perennials that grow very well in hanging baskets. The small leaves are thick and waxy, glossy in some, fuzzy in others. Leaf color is usually a crisp bright green but can be dark green, […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) is a perennial that keeps on giving. Plant one out in your garden and before you know it, you will have thousands of them. As a houseplant, it is just as generous but much more controllable— though you’ll still have to […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH The slow-growing clivia (Clivia miniata) has 2-foot-long, 2-inch-wide, dark evergreen, strap-shaped leaves. These arch out gracefully, seemingly direct from the potting medium. There are stems, but they are short and com- pletely covered by the foliage. Underground, the plant has long, ropy rhizomes. Mature, well-grown specimens […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Bird’s nest philodendron (Philodendron auriculatum, Philodendron deflexum)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Bird’s nest philodendron (Philodendron auriculatum, Philodendron deflexum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Philodendrons are the unsung heroes of the houseplant world. Not only are they perfectly comfortable living in the same environments as humans, they are lovely to look at and very tolerant of being relocated. Move them from room to room or take them outside for […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Angel Wing Begonia (Begonia × corallina)

ENGLISH Angel wing begonias are easy, gorgeous year-round houseplants that bloom profusely with drooping clusters of small brightly col- ored flowers. The original was a hybrid betweenBegonia aconitifolia and B. coccinea created by California plant breeder Eva Kenworthy Gray in 1926. Since that cross, many more have been made with several other species, and hundreds of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Aluminum plant (Pilea cadierei)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Aluminum plant (Pilea cadierei) is an easy-to-grow tropical houseplant, welcome everywhere for its striking evergreen foliage. Plants get 12 inches tall by 8 inches wide; they live in good condition for up to five years and can be maintained indefinitely by rooting tip cuttings of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Zebra plant (Aphelandra squarrosa)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Zebra plant (Aphelandra squarrosa)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Zebra plant (Aphelandra squarrosa) is an almost irresistibly gorgeous woody, broadleaf evergreen shrub. The striped foliage alone is a traffic- stopper, and when it’s in bloom it knocks your socks off. But it’s a cranky little devil—a real chal- lenge to keep it alive in […]

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

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

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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