Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Variegated Polyneura , 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I just had to stop at Home Depot this morning on my way from the Post Office. I had one coupon from the HD Garden Club for 15% off bulbs, houseplants and flowers that was expiring today and another coupon good until Sept 7 for 50% off any one orchid. I mainly was going to look at what orchids they had. The few orchids left on the table were all dried out and didn't look too good so I will use that coupon later.

Anyway ... I moseyed my cart around, picked up a couple of plastic pots I needed for transplanting some things, grabbed another bag of orchid bark and decided to stroll over to the area where they usually have the hanging EA plants! Our Home Depot hasn't had any hoya's in over a year and a half and I was shocked to see one hoya hanging amongst the ivy and pothos! And, it's polyneura! It was $9.98 for the little basket and I needed to find something so I could use my coupon! The plant was really saturated as so often HD plants are. It's funny, all of our HD's water and water and water, and at our Lowes the plants are always extremely dry as though they haven't been watered in months. I emptied the saucer twice before going through the checkout. I wasn't sure if I would be stopping someplace else on the way home so I didn't want it in the trunk of my car. I had the clerk give me one of the plastic bags and I put it in the back seat of my car. When I took it out of the car to bring it inside my car seat was soaking wet ... that shows how wet that plant was. The bag had 1/4" of water in it and apparently a hole because it was leaking. I was surprised, since I had tipped it twice to drain water out in the garden center. I brought it in the kitchen and immediately removed the saucer and put it in the recycle bin. The little hanging basket is now sitting on a pile of paper towels to try to soak up some more of the moisture but first I took it outside to take a picture.

I need to figure out the likes and dislikes of this one so I can try to keep it alive! As I said, I had the solid green one a year ago and it didn't live long at all. It was an EA plant too if I remember correctly. So ... any and all advice will be very welcome! I will probably repot this in my own mix as usual but want to learn a bit about it first ... can't remember if it's one that likes wet feet, prefers semi dry or very dry and I also need to know if it takes any sun.

Wish me luck in keeping this baby alive!

edited to say: Maybe this isn't actually the 'Broget' variegated version of polyneura? The more I look at it the more I'm inclined to agree with Podster ... as the foliage ages it is darker green, some leaves with just a tinge of variegation.



This message was edited Aug 24, 2009 3:11 PM