After posting the picture of what I had labeled as H. pentaphelbia I decided to try to untangle the mess of a display that I had of my Hoyas. I'm gonna post the few I've gotten finished or that I'm working on. Please help me verify the correct ID on these.
H. Densifolia
H. monetteae
NOID #1
--edited-- H. Affinis
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H. kerrii variegated and H. curtisii
Exotic Angel NOID Hoya.
H. fraterna
Jeri,
I think that your last hoya is Hoya meliflua subsp. fraterna, and your Exotic Angel Noid is Hoya lacunosa.
Doug
Thanks Doug I'll label them correctly then. I have all these crazy FEMA cats(12 of them now) that think my window blind labels are toys to play with. I'm starting to put a label under the dirt in addition to the one sticking up so if it gets too bad I can still correctly ID them.
Jeri, what is a FEMA cat? I have two plant eating terror cats that over the weekend turned a nice Iris Marie hanging basket into a pile of stubble. Sometime over the next year I will have to bring them home to where all of my nicest Hoyas live, and I'm very afraid.
Doug
You have every right to be afraid. A breeze blows and they attack the vines. Not a gardeners favorite site. They also think that they are shelf sitters and will knock the whole pot off the shelf.
We allowed the drivers that moved FEMA trailers for Katrina to store their units overnight until the yard opened the next day. People would leave their pets in the units when they were picked up then the driver would park the travel trailers and the cats would get out. I have a group that comes and traps them, neuter or spay them, but they have to return them so now I'm up to 12 cats and 1 crazy peacock that has been raised with them and also thinks he is a cat.
Larry Peacock
Jeri,
I love Larry the Peacock! Believe it or not, I used to keep Peacocks in Vermont. I hatched a bunch of their eggs under a bantam chicken that I had. It was the most comical sight watching that hen try to sit on top of those Peafowl babies when they were bigger than her. I love them, but most neighbors don't like the noise. I would love to have them again.
Doug
Jeri, Love your Hoyas but I really, really love Larry Peacock! He is beautiful! We used to vacation on the west coast of Fla a lot and there are a couple of neighborhoods that have wild peacocks roaming about. As Doug said, most folks don't like the noise!
Doug: I can just picture that chicken sitting on the baby peafowl ... I bet it was comical. When we bought our house almost 35 years ago this was a more rural area of few homes and there was a Rooster that the builder/owner said came with the property! That rooster hung around for a short while but then must have taken up residence elsewhere. The little neighborhood is still an unincorporated section of the city and about a block away there's a family who have a Petting Zoo ... they have chickens, roosters, goats, donkeys, pony's, ducks and probably an assortment of other critters that they take around to schools etc. The past few years some folks have tried to get us incorporated into the city (for better services etc.) but so far it's been a no-go because the majority are against it. A couple of blocks over someone keeps their racing greyhound dogs on property and other's have many animals (like the petting zoo folks). If we are incorporated into the city there are restrictions on how many adult pets over the age of 6 months that you can have.
Thanks Yall!!! Larry is looking a little naked right now, they loose their tail feathers in July & August. They have started to come back in now but they are just nubs.
Doug I agree that must have been a sight!!!! That chicken must have thought that she hit the Lottto when she got back to the nest and saw that egg!!! They are quite a bit larger than a chicken egg.
Lin that's kinda what our situation is also. We became the City of Central, La. July, 2005, then Katrina came through and turned all of our worlds upside down so technically we are Central but if I order something nobody has heard of that and it reverts back to our old city name.
We are still rural so we don't have to deal with HO and such.
Jeri: I live in Daytona Beach, population @ 65,000 or so, and the rural area's are fading faster and faster every day.
Hurricane Katrina sure was awful, that storm brought back memories of Camille which hit the Gulf coast area in October 1969, and Andrew which razed south Fla. in 1992 ... such devastation! We are all breathing a bit easier with no major storms this year. Of course Hurricane season doesn't end until Nov 30th, but I think if we can get through mid October we will be fine, we don't usually have any serious stuff that late in the season.
I know Daytona Beach well!!!! My cousin lives in Ormond Beach and we visit your great city while there. I have to agree about the deep breath we will breathe Dec. 1!!!!!
Our town is just a baby compared to yours!!! We are 12,000 strong and even throughout this bad economy we are continuing to grow!!!
Jeri: Is your sister a DG subscriber? Next time you are in town visiting, if you have a free afternoon maybe we can get together for coffee! I'd love to meet another DG'er!
I would enjoy that too!!! My DH may be coming to the races soon. It's hard for us to know for sure because we're raising 1 of our DGD so of course our plans are last to be confirmed. I'll let you know when we can sneak down.
Here are some more of my hoyas.
H. pottsii thick leaf
Is this H. lambii?
H. shepherdii
This one just isn't cooperating on a pretty display.
My husband and I moved to Daytona Beach when he got out of the military in 1973 and I've never even been to DIS, as I'm not a big race fan. My husband has been once or twice but prefers to be lounging in his recliner watching the race on t.v. Our mall is right across the street from the speedway and back in the late 70's we made the mistake of going to the mall at the same time of the Daytona 500 race ... BIG mistake! We are only about 2 miles south of the speedway in the S. Daytona area and when we left the mall the race was letting out and traffic was a nightmare. We had to go north for ten miles to pick up the interstate to head back south and traffic was so bad that it took us 2 1/2 hours to get home (normally a ten minute trip.) We've learned not to go anywhere in that area during races. I used to work up near the speedway and there's a big qualifying race every year on the Thursday before the 500 is run Sunday. I always hated that day because we got out of work at 5 O'clock but couldn't even get out of our parking lot until @ 8:00 p.m. because of the one way traffic.
I don't have any new blooms to show but I repotted Iris Marie and imperialis today. The imperialis pot had been knocked over and the plastic pot was actually split on the side. The pots I moved up to are large but the roots fill them. I accidentally broke off two pieces of imperialis while trying to unwind it from the trellis so I potted them up to see if they will take root.
It was getting dark out so that picture isn't great but it gives an idea of how those two have grown. I received imperialis as a small rooted plant in trade last year and Iris Marie was a decent size rooted plant from a lady who was getting rid of her hoyas. Both have grown a lot this year and hopefully next year I will see some blooms!
I was looking about while outside a few minutes ago and found blooms on H. heuschkeliana again but they are covered in aphids .... Grrrr! Guess I will mix up the BATS tomorrow and give everything a good long dunk!!
I have been fighting mealies all summer in my brugs and hoyas.
I will only go to Daytona to see my cousin and now you. I have no interest in the races at all. DH usually stays in the motorhome infield so he doesn't have to deal with traffic and truthfully he probably watches it on the TV. He loves the cooking and partying that goes on before and after. Tammy and I visit him before the races start and then I stay at her house so we don't have to deal with it too much.
How do you dunk your hoyas? I absolutely love your trellis on the right. That is so cute Where did you find that one? I cruise the antique shops around for little trellis and it's amazing how well they have held up and LOL how much they cost.
H. javanica on left, can't ID the one on the right do you think it looks like H. wayetii? Sorry for the prize weeds in the back.
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I have a big 5 gal bucket (my DH has a 150 gal aquarium and gets sea salt in them) and I mix up the Bayer Advanced with water and sit the plants down until the water covers the soil ... let the sit so that the soil is saturated and then take them out and let them drain. For the big plants that don't fit down into the bucket I just pour the BATS water directly onto the soil until it runs through.
That hoya on the right looks like cummingiana to me. Can you separate it from all the other plants to get a clearer picture?
That trellis I got at Target yesterday. I had another one and really like them. All they had left was that 3' size for $12.99 (I'm hoping they go on clearance so I can get a couple more.) They had another 5' size but it was $24.99 and I couldn't justify paying that much! I almost passed on the 3' one but needed another trellis.
I've got to work at the corn maze in the morning. We're setting up tables, making signs, etc to get ready for the Fall Festival. Can you believe it's already that time?
DH & I measured off the back awning to our guest house. I guess that is gonna be our new GH this year. I found some ClearView panels in my Growers Supply catalog. We only go down to 25 about 5 X's but that is enough to wipe out most of my collections.
H. megalaster
Jeri, very impressive H. megalaster and H. Lambii; I hope someday I can get those two to look like yours. Tough plants to grow, at least for me.
Doug
Thanks Doug I got both of those from David Liddle's coop last year. They have done quite well I thought. I haven't repotted the H. lambii yet. I ordered some trellis off ebay and are awaiting their arrival for that job.
Recognize any of these?
Noid ?
Here is the whole pot.
Jeri, in the first picture, the sharply pointed leaved plant in the white pot looks like Hoya amoena. The NOID in second and third is maybe Hoya sp. DS-70?
Thanks Doug. I think you are right on the H. amoena. I'll mark it with a ?? until it flowers.
A lot of the labels on my older stuff is faded completely out. Requiring me to quiz Yall verses trust my bad eyes!!!
I agree with Mark on both of those. The one with pointed leaves looks like my amoena and the bloom and foliage on the second looks just like my DS-70.
I've been busy in the GH.
Found this neat rack for $10.00.
Found some neat trellis for 3 for $7.00.
This is Mr. Hoya Duck!!! LOL!!!
jeri: Are those all hoyas? How big is your greenhouse? I had a very large greenhouse years ago but it wasn't heated and we on occasion do have cold nights during the winter. One time in the early 80's had a very hard freeze and it stayed cold for three days ... I lost a lot of plants and finally had my husband dismantle the greenhouse as I was working long hours back then and just didn't have the time.
Love Mr. Hoya Duck!
Hi Lin!!! Yes most in that GH are hoyas, there are 1 or 2 of other things but mostly hoyas. I was fortunate enough to get to visit Carol in Hawaii and she had some of her hoyas in a shade house/GH and you know how wonderful her collection is. I was so lazy this spring and so many other things to do that I never even moved them out for the summer and IMHO they actually did better under the controlled conditions in there.
This will be my 3rd year with the GH and have had good results so far. We only dip to 25 degrees F. maybe 5 nights and even then for only a few hours. I simply turn on a little ceramic heater with a thermostat, I set it for 65 degrees and just leave it alone. If it warms up to much I have 2 vents in the roof and will leave the door open with a fan running.
I still have 2 small grandchildren and they loved Mr. Hoya Duck. I just started it and can't wait for it to fill in.
