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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spider orchid (Brassia gireoudiana)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spider orchid (Brassia gireoudiana)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pansy orchid (Miltoniopsis hybrids)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Pansy orchid (Miltoniopsis hybrids)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn   ENGLISH Gorgeous, elegant, and sophisticated are the adjectives that spring to mind when describ- ing these lovely orchids, whose popularity has exploded in recent years. Well-grown pansy orchids (Miltoniopsis hybrids) have long, wiry flower stalks that arch up, out, and down from the center of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis, Doritis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Moth orchids are species and hybrids in the gen- era Phalaenopsis and Doritis, and their interge- neric cross, ×Doritaenopsis. All are epiphytes in nature (they never grow in soil), and any one of the many available kinds would be a sophis- ticated addition to your home. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dendrobium

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- […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dancing ladies (Oncidium spp.) are among the easiest orchids to grow successfully as house- plants. The plants are as beautiful as the flow- ers, and they can be relied on to repeat bloom so long as you provide them with the condi- tions they need. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Corsage orchid (Cattleya)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Corsage orchid (Cattleya)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Beallara and Aliceara

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Beallara and Aliceara

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The huge and utterly fascinating orchid world contains thousands of fully fertile complex hybrids made between species in different gen- era. Beallaras and alicearas are in the Odon- toglossum/Oncidium alliance. Many of these hybrid genera in this alliance were named after the first orchid breeder […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spring bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spring bulbs (Narcissus papyraceus)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Crocus, daffodils, grape hyacinths, hyacinths, and tulips will grace your home at a time when winter has a firm grip on the garden. Their riotous, happy colors in full bloom—red, pink, orange, yellow, blue, deep purple, lavender, and white—are a great tonic for chasing away […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rieger begonia (Begonia × hiemalis)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Persian violet (Exacum affine)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Persian violet (Exacum affine)

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. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Freesia (Freesia corymbosa, Freesia laxa, Freesia refracta)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Freesia (Freesia corymbosa, Freesia laxa, Freesia refracta)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Freesias are herbaceous perennials from bulb-like corms that have the same growth habit as spring bulbs; they’re in active growth during cool, wet winter/spring weather, and they go dormant in hot, dry summers. The ones treasured as temporary houseplants are all hybrids derived from Freesia corymbosa, F. laxa, […]

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