Tropicals & Tender Perennials: July Blooms, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Carol: Oh my goodness, running over hoya vines in the road! hmmm ... My dream house in the islands would be a little cottage, with a looong road/driveway, with arbors stretching the entire length, covered in Eriostemma and Hoya vines! Aaaah ... what an image! It sure is obvious from those two photo's in your above posts that Hoyas are real, real happy in Hawaii! Oh, banish the thought of Hawaii sinking! If worse comes to worse maybe someone can ship boatloads of dirt or better yet, big big boulders to reinforce the islands! Hawaiians could trade some of those beautiful plants that grow there for the materials to keep the islands from sinking!

gaiadisciple: Yep, that sure looks like brevialata. I have two of them, frequent bloomers.


My husband and I were gone earlier today and it stormed big time. Came home to find a huge tree branch down in the backyard and large plants blown over on the pool deck and some smaller plants blown off tables and shelves. My big Epiphyllum was half in and half out of the pool and another plant was dumped over on the pool deck and the wheeled tray it was was at the bottom of the pool. Must have had a wind gust come right through the screened area.

My two H. brevialata's: