Tropicals & Tender Perennials: The Swedes started it...., 1 by green971

green971 wrote:
Here is a picture that I found in my camera from niece's (the one with the flowers) graduation in June. Sorry, but you get the whole family, I haven't figured out how to crop. I am in the middle back row next to DH. The rest are DH, my son with the patch (9) and my daughter (7). Funny thing my niece and her sister went to Thailand this month for a summer trip, and it was all I could do to not have them looking for hoya cuttings. Would hate for them to have customs troubles though.

Just a little introduction. I am 33years old. I spent several years working in social work field, until I started to seriously question the system that I at one time thought "helpful" After too many sleepless nights, I quit social work, and my husband employed me full time as his "household manager" That involves cooking, cleaning, raising "his" children (when they are trying my patience) "my" children when they are sleeping, and being precocious.

I fell in love with house plants in the fourth grade when an elderly neighbor gave me a cutting of her christmas cactus. I bought my first hoya, an 90+ year old carnosa at an estate sale of an 89 year old lady in 2000. It had originally belonged to her mother. It was wrapped around one of those floor to ceiling light posts (like those shower rods that you squeeze together and then release. Later that year it bloomed, I didn't know it even would untill I kept looking for the glade plug in that I was sure DH snuck in. With 2 dogs and 4 cats and 2 stinky kids, he seems to think the hous is less than fresh. My job as house manager is not as mentally stimulating as it could be, so I turned to researching hoyas and spending a smally fortune of DH's harder earned money on plants! :) (thank you Carol) I now have about 50 diff. hoyas, and have to be discriminating as I strictly grow indoors and want things to look good while making sure the plants are in their most beneficial locations.
Sara

This message was edited Jul 8, 2006 3:59 PM