Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English WANDERING JEW BOTANICAL NAME Tradescantia zebrina This vine is a popular hanging basket plant. The attractive, iridescent, striped leaves shimmer in the light. It’s an easy-to-grow plant and is often used outside in the summer. It is not easily moved inside from outside, however, so […]
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Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English BUTTON FERN BOTANICAL NAME Pellaea rotundifolia This is an endearing small fern with little leaflets that resemble small buttons.The leaflets grow from arching fronds with dark brown stems. LIGHT PREFERENCE Place this fern in a medium light. An east window is best, but a north […]
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plans (Hướng dẫn Chọn và Chăm Sóc cây Indoors) - Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Chi Polypodium
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plants – GREEN WORM FERN, E.T. FERN, GRUB FERN (Polypodium formosanum)
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English GREEN WORM FERN, E.T. FERN, GRUB FERN BOTANICAL NAME Polypodium formosanum The common names of this fern describe it perfectly. Its creeping rhizomes or modified stems resemble green worms or E.T.’s fingers. This plant is considered a “footed” fern: the airy, light green fronds arise from […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English STRAWBERRY BEGONIA BOTANICAL NAME Saxifraga stolonifera This plant spreads by growing baby plants at the end of long string-like stolons or runners.This growth habit gives it the common name strawberry begonia, though it is neither a strawberry nor a begonia.The leaves have silver veins on the dark-green, […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English STRING OF PEARLS BOTANICAL NAME Senecio rowleyanus This adorable vine should be called “string of peas” instead, but if you could picture the little succulent leaves being white, it would undoubtedly resemble a strand of pearls. The succulent, round beads are the modified leaves: these […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Thu Hà English In this section, we will cover the care of individual houseplants. They are broken into three groups: easy to grow, moderately easy to grow, and challenging to grow. The houseplants considered challenging may not necessarily be that much harder to grow than an […]
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plans (Hướng dẫn Chọn và Chăm Sóc cây Indoors) - Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Chi Euphorbia (Pedilanthus) - Chi Đại Kích
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plants – Lisa Eldred Steinkopf – CROWN OF THORNS (Euphorbia milii)
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Nguyễn Huyền English CROWN OF THORNS BOTANICAL NAME Euphorbia milii Though this plant has many spines, it is not a cactus; it’s a succulent member of the spurge family.The spines may be hard to see as they are hidden by many oblong leaves.The common name comes from the fanciful […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English HENS AND CHICKS BOTANICAL NAME Echeveria sp. Echeverias are tropical hens and chicks and are quite often mistaken for sempervivums, their hardy northern look-alikes. On the other hand, they like to be kept warm and given plenty of light. If exposed to freezing temperatures, they […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English BOTANICAL NAME Epiphyllum These are epiphytic rainforest cacti native to Central America, not related to orchids at all but more akin to what we call Christmas cactus. When they are blooming, there is nothing more beautiful! The large flowers come in myriad colors and are […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English QUEEN’S TEARS, FRIENDSHIP PLANT BOTANICAL NAME Billbergia nutans This epiphytic bromeliad is perfect for a bright window in the house. It produces flowers on long, drooping stems.This plant is most often sold growing in pots filled with coarse medium, such as that used for orchids. But they […]
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plans (Hướng dẫn Chọn và Chăm Sóc cây Indoors) - Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Chi Sansevieria - Chi Lưỡi Hổ
[Ebook Việt Hoá] House plants: A guide to choosing and caring for indoor plants – SNAKE PLANT, BOW STRING HEMP PLANT, MOTHER-IN-LAW’S TONGUE (Sansevieria trifasciata)
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English SNAKE PLANT, BOW STRING HEMP PLANT, MOTHER-IN- LAW’S TONGUE BOTANICAL NAME Sansevieria trifasciata The snake plant family has certainly received a bad reputation as boring, ho-hum plants.Yet, grown well, they can be a beautiful plant with many forms and cultivars available. Previously placed in dark […]
Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Dịch: Huyền Nguyễn English WATERMELON PEPEROMIA BOTANICAL NAME Peperomia argyreia Once you’ve seen this plant, the common name will make perfect sense. It looks just like the rind of a watermelon.The silver leaves have green stripes and a teardrop shape with red stems. These small, colorful plants are easy […]