Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoyas: latifolias,new hoyas,addictive personalities -#3, 1 by

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This is the other corner in my living room, the shelf is sitting right in the window and it gets some brutally hot sun until early afternoon. So on the bottom, hotest shelf, I have a few copiously growing eriostemmas right in the front of the window and they provide dappled sunlight to the some of rest that don't need sun that strong. My only blooming hoyas right now are on that stand - Multiflora, heuscheliana. On the bottom shelf is my final nursery of cuttings for the year

The change I made last night was to take the shelf of hoyas on the left in picture 2 and move it the the left of the shelf in the final picture. There's far more light for it there and dappled sunlight, and allows the other shelf in picture 2 to get more light due to its absence.

Well, that's my little obsession and we all know how a little obsession like collecting hoyas can control our lives. The past year I've spent working on the house has been one of the best excuses I've ever had for not leaving home for more than two or three days. No dryed out hoyas at all, and they're all so happy and growing. I even have an umbel of flowers on one of the new ones I got this past summer-crossing my fingers for it not to blast.

My most recent count is 121 hoyas, 1 dischidia, 1 Norfolk Island pine and 1 pony tail palm, and a few others that I have to bring in from outside for the winter. I had way more "other" tropicals until fairly recently, but they were taking up precious hoya space and simply had to find new homes.

Hoya nuts unite!!

Christine