Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Root bound Hoyas, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
LOL, I am the worst, worst, worst photographer ... I can take 50 pictures and not have one come out clear! I am just so technically challenged when it comes to settings etc on the camera or with any electronics for that matter! I have problems with lighting when I take pictures so now I sit the plants on a table next to the pool in the sunlight and they seem to show up better.

Aaah ... THAT POOL! I can't remember the last time someone actually went swimming in it! We've talked about removing it many times but haven't done it. I love sitting out there and drinking my coffee in the morning when the weather is cool, which unfortunately is very rare! I know if the pool were gone our electric bill would be a lot less, since the pump runs 7-8 hours a day! Many years ago my mom loved coming to visit and going swimming and the nieces and nephews and friends kids loved it but everybody is grown or gone now.

The pool did come in very handy during the 2004 Hurricanes! We had Hurricane's Charley, Frances and Jeanne hit us in a 6 week period! We had a lot of tree damage with many trees down during Charley but were very lucky we had no damage to the house and no flooding etc during any of the storms! During Charley we lost power for a week which was no fun ... hot, humid summer weather and no electricity! We had a small generator that my BIL gave us that we used for powering our 150 gal aquarium, to keep the fish alive. After Charley my husband bought a much larger, more powerful generator ... we haven't had to use it yet, LOL.

We are in an unincorporated area of the county and just got city water hook up two years ago, but have a septic system. When we were without power after the one storm, we used buckets of water from the pool to flush the toilets. We lived in our bathing suits for a week, bathed in the pool. My husband took pictures of me sitting on the edge of the pool steps shaving my legs, LOL. Hurricane season is no fun! We were so fortunate to not have any damage to our home. Many lose everything in those awful storms. The SW coast of Florida had major, major damage from Charley.

Ok ... I just realized I'm gabbing away again, thought I was on the regular hoya bloom thread! Apologies Lee Anne for hijacking your thread!

This is Hoya memoria from the Spring 2008 order ... it rooted quickly but is a very slooow grower.