October Flowers

I think anoles are the cutest little lizards. He sure seems
to be happy getting his drink from the hoya. It is cute pic.

Thanks RRM. I love having these little creatures around because they eat insects. I am always finding little lizard eggs in my plants and even hatched a couple out in my terrarium last winter. It was fun catching moths and feeding them every evening. One I released to the backyard after the weather warmed up but the other unfortunately died in the terrarium. Now when I find the eggs I just leave them be so they can hatch where they are.

Do you ever see the little bluetailed skinks around your hoya?
Those are pretty too, but much more skittish than the anoles.
Baby anoles are hatching out now, too. They are so cute.

I have on occasion seen the blue-tailed skink (the juvenile form of the Five-lined skink): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeces_fasciatus but our yard is mostly home to many, many of the little anoles.

That was very interesting, Thanks.

Sorry about the fuzzy photo.

did you notice? everything else is clear except the bloom.
It's going to be prety.

Sunshine, is that heuschkeliana?

Lin, yes heuschkeliana. First time blooming

I have the pink blooming heuschkeliana and one of these days I'm going to get the yellow. I think they would look great planted together.

They are terrific together!!!! Joni has the yellow....

^_^

I have all three, but I'm a purist...they're all in separate pots...lol


C.

Three?? I knew about the pink because I got that one in trade a year or so ago and just learned recently of the yellow one when someone posted a photo on here. So ... what's the third one??

Lin, I believe it is supposed to be red, but I haven't been able to find a picture of it.
C do you have a picture of the "3rd one". I would love to see it.

Dee

Yes, the third is red and really sweet. I got it from Paul Shirley in Holland. It bloomed for me when it was a cutting and I was in the middle of moving last year, and couldn't find my camera. Its just taken off growing now so it'll likely probably bloom again by spring. I'll be sure to take a picture and post it.


Christine.

i have seen mention of the RED one...but have never seen it. Would love to put it in my 'POT'....

You'll be first on my list for a cutting Carol.

C.

OOOOOOoooooo Looking forward to it....

hmmm, now how do we convince PS to sell to some of us here in US. Anybody have any ideas?

I would love to have the red one to go with my pink and yellow as well. Christine, is it a dark red or a bright red?

Dee

Its bright red from what I remember, the colour of valentine cinnamon heart candies or maybe a little darker.

I'm thinking PS had some issues with US shipments and won't go through it again. Perhaps someone could talk the Liddles or Ted Green into dealing with him commercially for some of the hoyas that he seems to have a monopoly on.


Christine

Hoya tjdasmalangensis.....really nice plant with beautiful foliage when expossed to sun. The scent on this hoya is very unique.....a sweat clove aroma.

Oh, that is gorgeous. Love it.

That is a beauty, Ric! What a name ... I couldn't even begin to pronounce it, LOL. I adore the scent of cloves, mmm. Is anyone (other than me) old enough to remember the Clove chewing gum from back in the 60's and 70's? I loved that gum!

Afraid so. You can still get it once in a great while.
It has been a long time since I have had any.

Here is H obscura, blooming for few months now.

Here are the leaves & buds with more sun exposure.

I had to clip it to show all the blooms on this H nummulariods.

Very pretty.

Love the photo of the foliage and buds on the obscura! I have a small rooted cutting of obscura and moved it to more sun a week or so ago and it's looking pretty.

Don't you just love the fragrance of nummularioides? I had a nice basket of that one a year ago and most of it died away for some reason but I was able to take a couple of cuttings and they are hanging in there ... not doing much growing but I have hopes it will kick in eventually. I just remember the fragrance being really nice on that one!

I totally agree, H. tjdasmalangensis is far too hard to wrap my tongue around too, I call it Chad; it seems to like it. But the scent of cloves, wow, the flowers are really lovely, but with that scent it would be almost edible! (yes, I remember that gum too...lol)

Sunshine, your obscura and nummularoides are stunning!

All those flowers on numm...s (another darn tongue twister) are incredible. Mine flowered once before, as a cutting, and now, 2 years later, has its first buds since then. What a lightweight!

Beautiful flowers.


Christine

Ric, your photo of H. tjdasmalangensis is outstanding! I have that one, and the foliage is indeed beautiful. Now after seeing yours, I can't wait for mine to bloom. I think I read somewhere that some people think that H. tjdasmalangensis and H. polystachya are one in the same. I have both, and while the leaves look almost identical, H. polystachya has a dark reddish brown border on the leaf edge. I think both of them are among the best of the Hoyas to grow for their foliage alone - their flowers are a nice bonus.

H. nummularioides is blooming at my house right now. It has to have one of the strongest scents of any Hoya. I can hardly breathe the perfume is so strong. I will try to grab a photo of my plant over the weekend. It is a three year old EA basket that is huge. It goes to show once again how EA seems to make choose the best species for Hoya hanging baskets.

Doug

Sunshine, gald to see your pic of nummularioides. Here is mine. It was a cutting given to me last year in a swap. It just took of this year. I was not expecting blooms so soon. I just happened to see the peduncles about a week ago and couldn't believe it. I was curious if the name was correct. Now I know.
dawn

I went out to Paul Shirley's website. He said there were bad issues with sending plants to USA and non payment from people in USA. I would think you wouldn't send until payment received, but maybe he went on a trust thing and some buttheads broke that trust and now we suffer for it. Anyway, he states on his site that he would consider sending to USA if it was sent directly to a commercial business. Contact him first.

Dee

That's funny about non-payment. Any order I've made with him is always paid before he ships, by his own terms. This has been the case for the four years I've been dealing with him.


Christine

I have ordered from him 2 or 3 times...and each time the plants have arrived soggy and dead and he has had to resend. Also, he labels them with paper labels written in pen...not readable when they arrive. I gave up.

I agree about the labels, they're not good at all and I replace them right away. But I've lost very few cuttings out of all of the orders I've placed with him, far less than the 10% I've grown to expect.


C.

Here is H. pachyclada flowering away under the grow lights.

Doug

Here is the entire plant:

Here is H. leucorhoda, which decided to flower again.

Doug