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[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?: Umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Hạnh Nguyên ENGLISH Each large, attractive leaf of umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla) and dwarf umbrella tree (S. arboricola) has seven to 11 or more leaf- lets all attached to the same point at the tip of the petiole (leaf stalk). The leaflets radiate from the center and droop […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Tree ivy (× Fatshedera lizei)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Tree ivy (× Fatshedera lizei)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rubber tree (Ficus elastica)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Rubber tree (Ficus elastica)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Sago palm (Cycas revoluta)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Sago palm (Cycas revoluta)

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 […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla)

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- […]

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