Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya in Hawai 2, 1 by markroy68

markroy68 wrote:
I visited a couple of gardens belonging to Hoya lovers in the Hawaiian Islands this week, and thought I would post some pictures of the trip.
This first set is from Oahu. I visited Ted Green here, in Kaaawa ("kay-ah-ah-va", I think), on the windward (east) side of Oahu, about an hour from Honolulu, 45 minutes from Waikiki.
This first photo is of Hoya monetteae. This species was named for Ed Gilding's mother (I believe she was on the collecting trip when this was found). A really beautiful plant, it has giant (up to a foot long, 6 inches wide) leaves that are usually dark green and very thick, like leather from a motorcycle jacket. Ted's plant gets a lot of sun, and the leaves were more yellow. This plant was loaded with seven or eight huge clusters of white, fragrant flowers. They even smelled during the day.