African Violets and Gesneriads: OT - September Outside Beauties, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Forgot to say how much I like that Hoya too! Of course, I am a hoya fanatic ... don't have many and all of mine are the common ones. Is that H. cinnamomifolia? I was looking at it in PF and it doesn't say it's fragrant. And, it's weird but Rob's Violets says that H. lacunosa has a cinnamon scent. Confusing but as long as they smell really good I love them. I had one EA plant that was H. nummularioides that smelled sooo wonderful and it died on me. The vines just started drying up ... I would cut off the dead part, tried rooting some in water, some in perlite and some in my regular mix to no avail. I hope to find that one again some day, it was a small leaf hoya but the little flowers were so cute and so fragrant!

Love your Epiphyllum too! Wow! Look at that fruit! I'm curious ... are you going to harvest the seeds?? Uh Oh ... another propagating addiction? Aren't Epi's just wonderful? Is that one a night bloomer? I found more buds on my E. hookeri when I was outside this morning! I am bound and determined to see the darn flowers opened! I have had this plant since @1976 and since it's a night bloomer and sits out in a corner of the backyard I have yet to see it bloom! Last month it had 2 buds and I would watch every day and swore I was going to keep checking with the flashlight every night so I didn't miss the blooms ... wouldn't you know it, I missed checking a couple of nights and went out one morning and they were flopped and wilted ... done! I just made a note and stuck it on the kitchen table so hopefully I will remember this time and be able to get some pic's!