June Flowers OT II

This is lysimachia 'Walkabout Sunset', a good ground cover or used to trail in hanging baskets.

Ooooh,
I love that GL. It looks something like my Golden Alexander,but I would love the trailing habit.

http://www.provenwinners.com/plants/detail.cfm?photoID=6789

I like it underplanted as a ground cover in pots to spill over. I have it in the coleus planters too. Very easy to grow and cuttings root 1-2-3 easy as pie. If you want some, ibrabec, let me know.

Thank you Heidi,I will ^_^. I see it is not perennial in my zone,but it would make a lovely annual. I love yellow!!

oh wow, that is sp pretty....will have to look for that, might make a great low ground cover around hostas. thanks for posting!

GL: Oooh, that is soo pretty! I love the variegation in the foliage and those blooms! I bet it would look great as an under planting or ground cover for container plants. I can picture it as a trailer against something solid dark green for contrast!

I don't see 'Walkabout Sunset' listed in PF: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=lysimachia&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&offset=0 You should add that one, really nice!

My Epiphyllum oxypetalum bloomed last week. Thought I'd share this picture again ...

Mandevilla

Good Morning!!!

This is Schlumbergera 'Thor Zita'

Hoya Compacta

Plantlady, I saw your beautiful epi progression posts on the orchid cactus forum....makes me sad that mine is such a slacker. Only my big red one blooms, the rest just take up space. I have Three Oranges, Padre Pink, Big Red, and a few ric racs and an unknown that is probably red or white. Oh yeah, also have a curly leaf epi, some kind of monstrose thing.

Grow Happy, your hoya compacta flowers are gorgeous. Nothing prettier than a hoya flower - but what is a schlum doing blooming now??

TY, jmp!
Crazy isn't it?? LOL Some of my CC's actually bloom every summer as well as Fall. I set them outside in April of every year and by this time or later, I see blooms. The cool nights outside have helped them to bloom.
I have ' Gold Charm' and 'Thor Alise' that are about to bloom too!

Lin, is QOTN fragrant? I think I have one of those. LOL Still small, though.

Wow! That Schlumbergera is gorgeous! My compacta is still blooming away too, it's a shame it isn't one of the fragrant hoyas, but the growth habit and blooms are pretty.

Yes, Epi oxypetalum ("Queen of the Night") smells good! My husband said the scent was extremely fragrant! With my allergies acting up my sinuses wouldn't cooperate and I could not detect the scent ... Arrgh! Hopefully the next blooms I will be able to smell! I have buds on Epiphyllum hookeri right now but that one has no scent.


There are so many plants with the common name "Queen of the Night" Here are a few orchid cactus with that same common name. Same family of cactaceae, but some are different genus. I bet there are hundreds more with the same common name!

Such gorgeous blooms!

Peniocereus greggii: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/78418/
Selenicereus grandiflorus: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/62764/
Hylocereus undatus: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54131/
Epiphyllum anguliger: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54204/
Epiphyllum oxypetalum: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2443/

Wow, who knew? :) LOL I think it's the Oxypetalum that I have. How long did it take for yours to bloom if grown from a juvenile plant?

I'm outside Neeming everything(all my houseplants). My summer ritual. I'm going to HD to buy some 5 inch pots for my CC. When I get back, I may get up enough nerve to microwave my soil. LOL I think I read Critter's recipe of 1Q soil w/at least 1 cup of water to prevent fire. :) Have any of you ever baked or microwaved your soil?

GH: I've had my oxypetalum for probably six years and this is the first time it's bloomed (that I know of.) I could very well have missed the blooms as has happened on my large Epi. hookeri and Ric Rac orchid cactus. I never knew they were night bloomers and they stay outside year round. The oxypetalum really started putting on lots of growth last year when I transplanted it to a larger pot and began feeding it. Last month I decided to try the beer formula fertilizer and mixed up a batch and began using it on all of my plants. It may be my imagination but I think I can see lots of new growth on everything!

I like the beer fert. I used it a couple of years ago on some CC and Hoyas. I did see improvements in the leaves. I've been meaning to go back to using it, but just haven't.

S. 'Thor Alise' decided to show her pretty face today....

I use the beer formula too and think it works great. I use David Elliots mix, add bloom booster fertilizer, and some molasses. Not making my ric racs bloom, though. I have two different types, you would think one would show me some action but noooo...

Plantlady, you inspired me to put one of those bamboo hoop stakes in my oxy pot. Maybe if it has something to hang on to it will do better.

GrowHappy, I gave my BF a small schlum at Christmas a few years ago, amazingly it is still alive and doing well. He never puts it outside and often forget to water, and it bloomed beautifully a few months ago, so who knows!

Lin, Grow Happy and Goldfleaf, I love the photos!

I know this doesn't quite count as a bloom yet, but with Hoyas, even a peduncle is something to write home about! This is Hoya heusckeliana. I've had it for at least 3 years and this is the first it's bloomed. When fully open, they smell like buttery popcorn. most notable in the mornings. YUMMY!!!!!

Isn't H. heuschkeliana wonderful! I have that same one with the pink blooms. I want to get one of the yellow blooming varieties one of these days! My heuschkeliana had one little bloom about a month ago and I noticed more buds earlier this evening! One of my favorite Hoya's!

Yes, Linda! Oh, it's to die for! I was reading the Hoya forum last night and was thinking that I,too, want the yellow one. I wonder if they smell the same?

Speaking of Hoyas, I have a Fungii and Macgillivrayi that I am patiently waiting(see today's voting question? LOL) to bloom. My Shepherdi bloomed pretty well late winter/early spring.

Boo Hoo, I don't have any beauties outside to show anyone. Nothing but God's rain with all that nitrogen can make a plant grow and bloom............only city water month after month is really taking its' toll on the outside plants.

Growhappy, congrats on the hoya buds! It IS exciting to see them! My 5 yr old fungii just bloomed this spring for the first time. It is very pot bound now, started it with 2 small cuttings in a 5 inch pot and now I can barely get my fingers in the mix to check for dryness, it is so matted with roots. This year it put out these two long vines, approx 4 feet each, then the peduncles showed up on those. It was pretty exciting. The flowers last a while too. So be patient, if your plant is the right size and age, it will happen!

Seems like this is a good hoya year for me, all my plants are finally getting old enough to do some blooming. I even have buds on linearis, which is a miracle of great proportions!!

Jmp, how does the Fungii smell? I *usually* only buy fragrant hoyas.:) I bought it from Kartuz about 2 years ago or so. It was a nice size plant when I got it. No peduncles so far, just more leaves. I'm going back to my beer fert. for the hoyas and christmas cactus. Maybe next year will be Fungii's year!

I'll have to google linearis, as I don't think I've seen that one. My publicalyx is a disappointment. I've had that one for almost 4 years and nothing yet! I gave up on Multiflora last year after the 2nd try. Leaves kept yellowing on me and buds blasting.
I tried Odorata twice as well, no luck.

Do you grow orchids too?

I hate to tell you, but fungii didn't have a strong scent at all. The flowers were definitely pretty though! The strongest scented hoyas I own are carnosa and pubicalyx and nummularioides. I also have a NOID that I believe is in the pottsii family, and that one is also very strong. Linearis is the one with the needle like leaves. I will see if I can find a picture of mine from it's first two years. I had problems with stem rot and now have it growing in a hydroponic pot, and it is much smaller.

Be patient with pubicalyx. I have "Pink Silver" and mine took ten years to bloom, though that was in a low light situation. Yours will bloom sooner with better light, and it is so worth the wait!! I never cared for Multiflora. I like the vining thick leaved hoyas, not the bush types.

I LOVE Hoyas! I have H. heushkeliana and it bloomed once. Smelled wonderful! Just like buttered popcorn. The peduncles fell off, but it formed two new ones. They haven't bloomed yet, but they will, especially since I recently put it outside. I have H. macgillivrayi and H. nummularoides that I don't think will ever bloom. LOL I bought H. caudata last year and just knew I'd killed it over the winter, but I put it outside anyway, just in case it might live. It put out a new vine and two new leaves! Woohoo! LOL

Here's one of my H. carnosas just opening the buds. Smells like fresh cut sweet hay to me. Everyone seems bored with the carnosas, but they're still some of my favorites. So reliable, pretty, and yummy-smelling!

Hoya calycina isn't doing much yet, but it's so fuzzy, I don't care if it ever blooms! It's a fairly large plant, but I only took this picture of one of the leaves and a new vine to show how fuzzy it is. I'll try to get a whole plant pic soon. It has the beginnings of pecuncles, but I don't think it will bloom any time soon.

My favorite of all! Hoya macrophylla variegated. I got a small start of this last year and it's growing like Jack's beanstalk now that it's outside! LOL It doesn't sit there in the sun. I just put it there so I could get its picture.

That last picture was sideways. Sorry about that. Anyway, here's a close up of one of the new leaves. I think this one is just beautiful!

Do any of you remember 1gardengram - Diane? She sent me cuttings of her Hydrangea several years ago and I have three beautiful bushes from those cuttings. I think of her every time I walk out the back door and see these lovely blooms. She was such a sweet lady. I miss her!

wow, just look at your macrophylla! I also got a small start of it last year, and other than rooting, it has done NOTHING!! Still just the same original 3 leaves. I have it in a brighter spot now, maybe that will help.

I love carnosas too, after all, they were my first hoyas, and will always be one of my favorites. I have 8 of them, the 2 different types of variegated and 3 types of the solid green. My favorite is still my first plant, grown from cuttings of the first hoya I ever laid eyes on. It's the solid green, and if it gets alot of light the flowers are a deep deep pink. Here is a picture, not a great photo, but you can see how pretty the color is.

Loving all these pretty pics!! I love hoyas and can't even imagine growing hydrangeas in our soil (LOL)

Oh, that is too bad they don't do well down there, Gail. What is the soil like? Ours is pretty sandy, guess a billion years ago the ocean was this far inland....but it is also very wet here, high water table. The hydrangeas do great. I think the blue is my favorite, I especially love when it hasn't quite turned completely blue yet, and the petals are a mix of blue and a creamy yellow.

here is my favorite

close up

We have very alkaline soil (they call it black land farming which is good for crops) but there is so much clay, you have to spend years amending the soil with manure, cotton seed and gypsum..........plus plenty of blood meal and bone meal..............

I love blue hydrangeas. Reminds me of my childhood house in North Carolina. We had a bush off to the side of our front porch. I always loved that bush! I can never remember if they need acidic or alkaline soil to turn that blue color??????

Carnosas are so pretty, and I never knew they were scented! I've tried growing them from plants I bought at the nursery to cuttings from garden friends, but they all had mealies. I gave up. I am just thankful that my compacta has always been mealie free. Once those suckers get in the twists and turns of the leaves, they are impossible to kill without a good systemic, like BATS.

Amy, is the calcina in the erythrostemma(sp??) family? If so I'm afraid to grow any in that family b/c I've heard they must have warm and humid temps. I can't offer both at the same time all the time. LOL
Your var. macrop. is gorgeous! I have one of those. Even if it never blooms, I am okay because of the beautifully colored and veined leaves. I received it as a rooted cutting a couple of years ago. I should probably pot it up now and take it out of it's original digs. Might do better, ya think? LOL
I have a cute lil Curtisii that doesn't do very much. It must be a slow grower. I've a very small nummalariodes(sp?) too, but it's got a long ways to go before it becomes an impressive specimen!. I think I spotted a peduncle on it last year. Never bloomed though.
Jmp- I believe I had a linearis, now that you describe it as needle like leaves. I let it get too dry too often. It just started looking bad, so I tossed it. It was hard to maneuver in the pot, as it was just a cutting. It kept coming out. Very unruly lil fella was he. :)
10 years for Publicalyx, huh? Yes, I have that kind of patience. LOL I have it outside now and keep it under flouros in the winter months. I hope that's enough cuz that's all I can give her! ***Keeping fingers crossed***

Edited to say:
Does anyone grow H. Obovata? I love the leaves on that one. I had a peduncle but it blasted. So sad.:(

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I grow H. Obovata.

Has yours bloomed Gail? Is it fragrant? I don't remember now why I bought this one. If I were a betting woman, I'd say it was because it was fragrant!