I am curious as to everyone's Wish Lists? Not that I am going to do anything about it (I turned in my Tooth Fairy badge years ago) but everyone's perception of what is "the best" and what is coveted really interests me!
Do you go for foliage or flowers? What if you had a hoya with super foliage that never bloomed...would you dis it?...visa versa?
Thanks,
Carol
Wish Lists?
Hmmmm on my wish list are large flowering species like
macgillivrayi/megalaster, imperialis, lauterbachii but first of all wishes is a greenhouse to fit them inside LOL.
Milan
Long list, but the current ones that I am interested in finding are Hoya Kerrii both the variegated and green, and one called Snake in Basket (or something like that), that one was gorgeous. Since I just started collecting Hoya, I am sure I will be discovering several more.. I truely am afraid that once I see one in bloom, that I'll be a hoya addict.
I have several hoya, and I have to say that the foliage is the cake, the flowers the icing.....you enjoy both equally as much in different ways....can you have one without the other?? Then again unusual foliage can be gratifying all by itself.....
I agree with Milan. Macgillvrayii and megalaster but, most of all, enough space to grow everything I want. Afraid I'll never get the latter!
Yes, that variegated H. macrophylla is gorgeous! Didn't Awanda get one from Thailand?
Yep, Carol, Awanda got one from Thailand :-), and it's a slow grower, but it is growin.
Blessings,
Awanda
Susan...watch for the Postman! The menehunes (small lovely friendly spirits) have been active again! LOL
Well, I got a hoya on my wish list-a beautiful archboldiana (courtesy of Carol-Thanks). The one from Logees, I lost, can not compare with this one. I didn't realize the leaves were so big!! But as you all know, the big leaves are my faves.
Of course, for us addicts, the quest never ends. So until the next time a hoya catches my eye, I'm going to enjoy the new kid on the block.
Susan
Slow? variegated macrophylla is not slow, as long as you give it tropical mist.
My wish list.
H. metallicata spelling?
spartiodes that I have on order
caudata with hair on top of the leaves
cystiantha Schelecter
Very few that I want at this time. I'm looking for outstanding leaves, different tiny growing plants that creep and or outstanding flowers that are showy for a large tropical conservatory. Norma
Norma -
aka H. cv.Metallica is actually a hybrid by MM between H. sp Laos X H. vitellina. Seems that he saved a few seedlings and dispersed them around...and they have shown up with very different flowers (and probably leaves). Tipol has one with flatish corollas and it is very pink. Mine has cream colored slightly reflexed corollas and a pink corona.
The leaves are incredible, tho'...
I am slowly being converted to the "Please don't hybridize, we have enought trouble as it is" philosophy...especially when hybridizers don't keep records of their crosses and the distributions!!!! I just threw out about 50 seedlings of a self cross of H. sp. Green Apple. It was fun growing the seed, but I have seen the problems seedlings cause and I don't want to contribute to them!!!!!
I considered H. spartiodes for my wish list but am not convinced it really is a hoya yet. The jury is still out.
So many hoyas...so little time - sigh!
Carol, did MM tell you he did this. I will need this information for the Huntington should I be able to locate the plant. I think I can get MM phone # and have our curator call him. I sure as heck wish who ever sells it would list it as a hybrid, before selling it. 'Metallica' X then list the parents. Is this a specially good looking plant, or does it have wonderful flowes.
Our curator does not like hybrids. Does not want them taking up space, etc. I'm trying to convince him otherwise. Norma
Yes, Michael told me this himself. By the way, shortly this hybrid will have a different name as H. cv. Metallica is not published, nor is it tenable.
MM liked making hybrids between gorgeously leafed and frequently blooming hoyas. H. sp. Laos X H. vitellina has large fabulous leaves (up to 10" x 8") with metallic lights to them...and it flowers all summer. The leaves are the highlight of this hoya, for me, and the frequency of bloom a bonus. They smell good, too!
I have so many on my wish list, but since here in Canada it's almost impossible to get some.
my dream is to get the big flowering once.
now I have a greenhouse :)
well maby one day I hide in a suitcase and sneek in to the states ;)
Carmen
Carmen,
Pike Lake Greenhouses in SK does have H. imperialis if you are interested.
Carmen, I owe you remember, I will send them to your friend. Norma
Milan,
yep I ordered some Hoyas last fall, and I'm on the list for this year :) can't wait for summer.
Norma, I don't think you owe me more, you have sent my friend a package once.
Carmen
Just saw this wish list post. Here is my wish list. It's long! LOL!
Cindy
greenii
endauensis
Varigated acuta
archboldiana x macgillivrayi hybrid
fraterna
affinis
subcalva
imperialis alba
lauterbachii
megalaster
Cynthia-
I share a number on your list: the H. affinis (I have only killed 2 of them, so have to try for #3), H. greenii, the white H. imperialis. So...you like the big leaves and flowers, too!
I got H. subcalva which turned out to be H. BSI - 1 (flowers that smell like Welches Grape Juiice) and my H. fraterna? hasn't bloomed yet so dont know if it is real.
Isn't this better than a P.D. James novel?
I would love to get a hoya with small leaves...not a difficult one but a somewhat unusual one. If PanamonCreel is still watching this thread please tell me if Pike Lake Greenhouses has one that fits that description and it's name.
This is my old friend:
(please ignore the dust...I'll take it outside tomorrow and give it a bath)
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Nice one Pam, do you give it a brush for the back scrub when providing the shower LOL.
You must have fun training those vines.
Now in regards to Pike Lake and small leaved Hoyas.
H. bella (relatively easy to grow and flower if watered well)
H. bella variegated form (I find this one very finicky and requires alot of humidity)
H. lacunosa (easy to grow and flower, nice shiny foliage)
H. serpens (He has it listed as 'minima', also he has trouble supplying this one. Not one of the easy ones especially if you cannot provide high humidity)
H. shepherdii (long narrow leaves, easy to grow)
Milan
LOL...he usually isn't that demanding (wouldn't get that much special treatment from me anyways). I did notice I'll have to do some more weaving for it soon tho'.
Thank you Milan!! From your reply I see that I will be purchasing H.bella (non-variegated), H. lacunosa or H. shepherdii. I'd rather not have the too finicky ones....they prob. would suffer a ugly death in this house.
Lillypon...H. heuschkeliana is really easy to grow, too...small leaves, blooms all year and smells like butterscotch. H. brevialata is a good bloomer too, as is H. tsangii. Both are small leaved and smell great. Then there is H. kanyakumariana which has tiny ruffled leaved...it's a slow grower and I haven't seen a bloom yet.
The first three are easy to grow....they just like good filtered light and lots of water.
Thank you for the information Carol! :) I'll have to ask Milan where a Canadian could purchase any of the ones listed above. I don't think I'll be picking up any this summer but I'll have a really great *wish list*, courtesy of you and Milan, for ordering next spring!! :D