Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoyas in Hawaii, 1 by markroy68

markroy68 wrote:
I spent ten days in Hawaii this week and last, and two of the higlights of my trip were visits to Ted Green and Carol Noel, on Oahu and the Big island (Hawaii) respectively. Both visits were real eye openers- I got to see and smell many Hoyas in bloom that I had only seen in photos before, and saw Hoyas climbing high into palm trees and over shrubs and small structures.
I'll write more and include some more photos for an article in the summer issue of Stemma, but I wanted to share a few photos here first.
I visited first with Ted Green. We took him out to lunch after being given a wonderful tour of his gardens and laboratory, and I took this photo of Ted just as the food came. Ted only ordered a fruit salad, despite my picking up the tab, but when it came it turned out to be this awesome pile of tropical fruit and rainbow sherbert piled into a halved pineapple. Ted looked very much like the cat who ate the canary when this item arrived.