Here are some newly opened ones from this afternoon. It's blooming just about everywhere right now, but I thought I'd only share these since they are my fragrance favourites at the moment. Waiting for first time flowers in hypolasia and chlorantha var. tutuilensis.
Edited to add that the two last photos are from yesterday.
Christina
pentaphlebia
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cv. Jennifer (Ann, there are strange flowers also this time!)
cv. Sunrise (cutest of them all!)
little bella too.
and camphorifolia not for the smell but for the cuteness!
Those are beautiful, Christina!!
I am having hoya anxiety again. Christina, those photos are great. I love the flowers on camphorifolia.
What is it about Christina's environment that is "so right" and what about mine is "so wrong".
I think I am going to go home and whine at my plants for awhile. (It will probably have the same effect it has on the kids, ZERO.
Truely I am starting to feel very inadequate.
The stupid H. obscura seems to prefer living in a plastic bag under a flourescent light in my kitchen. Fine, just fine......
Oh no, I don't want my photos to cause hoya anxiety... but thanks for the compliment about my photos! When you post photos of your hoyas outside I'M having wishes I could grow them outside! Isn't it funny how we are never really satisfied?!? I doubt you're doing anything wrong, Susan. Perhaps it's just not the time... I'm a firm believer that a hoya will bloom when it's ready to do so! I just burried my big obscura... Roots VERY dead, leaves VERY wrinkled, saved a few cuttings but I doubt they'll make it.
Christina
Oh, Christina those are absolutely beautiful! Fabulous photos too!
My camphorifolia is in bud stage right now and I am crossing my fingers for blooms. One can't tell from the pictures, but the blooms are pretty dainty aren't they?
Good job.
Ann
Never heard the word dainty before... What does it mean?
Edited to say I found the word in an older dictionary.
The camphorifolia flowers are only about 6-7 mm in diameter and soooooo cute!
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I think it means something along the lines of small and delicate.
Ann
Christina, Fabulous photos! I can't wait for your chlorantha var. tuituilensis to bloom and see those photos. I just got a nice pot of it from the Pimpette 2 days ago and couldn't believe the leaf! I read the description but to see it in person was realy great. I love to see all diferent photos of the same bloom so I can see how mine might look some day.............
Beautiful blooms! -joanne
Susan - ROFL! I feel your pain!!! Really, REALLY, thinking about putting in an order with the pimpette for "anything getting ready to bloom" just to see some blooms!!
Very pretty Christina, camphorifolia looks like it has glitter on the corolla's. Ah yes little Sunrise is a beauty. Please do post pictures of chlorantha var. tuituilensis, I am anxious to see what she will look like with your wonderful photography. Thanks for sharing your beauties..... :)
Tami
OK, it's just because I'm having so much fun with my new camera and all these blooms ...
Here is a close-up of one of my shepherdii blooms.
Ann
Beautiful blooms Christina. You have no cause to be envious of mine. I often look at your website photos too, and wish I had windows like yours. I would actually prefer to grow more of them in the house where I could enjoy them more often.
Ann....your picture is just stunning. I think you could photograph the hairs on a flea's behind. Ha.
ANN - remind me to hire you as my staff photographer!!! Christina was always my idol...and still is...and you are getting up there to her excellence, I have to say!!!
Did you ever stop to think how talented this forum is?....The growing skills, the photography, the innovation, the willingness to help those we have sucked in....I say....good on us!!!!
Carol
Yes, we, the Hoya Forum, really do ROCK!!
Christina, the yellow pentaphlebia is really "en liten goding" = dainty I think... I looked in my dictionary and the Swedish words I wanted, "goding" or "läckerbit" both were translated "dainty". So we both have learded a new word today then =). A beauty, your pentaphlebia.
Ann, your shepherdi bloom is so cute. And it is one of my favourite fragrances.
Marcy, I like your pubicalyxes a lot! Mine have bloomed with ony one umbel at a time. Looks awosome with so many umbels at the same time! And I love your "Christmas decoration"! Cool!!!
My little serpens has bloomed very good during June. Becomes more a more a favourite of mine. Last summer it bloomed on my balcony so now I have some tiny seedlings. =) I don't know if they will manage but it is sure fun to try.
OT!
One of the small seedlings. If they manage they will have a thread of their own later on =)
Thanks everybody! Photographing is so much more fun with the new camera! Instead of throwing 90 % in the trash can as with the old camera I now get to keep 90 % of them! :-))
Lotta: The pentaphlebia IS a real beauty and it smells just like lavender, but the flowers last less than two days before they close up again. Which is compensated by frequent flowers instead!
Tami: Little camphorifolia is so "hairy" that it does look like glitter.
Lotta: Your serpens is so cute. To LOOK at...
Christina
Found this one today when we got home, Hoya kerrii. I saw the flowers through the window from outside... I had totally missed the buds!
Christina
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Lotta, your serpens bloom is fabulous! I have not ever been able to keep a serpens alive (much less get it to bloom). What is your secret? What kind of light, how moist, etc. I'm with you on the new camera thing too. I never could get a good close-up with my old camera, but now I get some beauties.
Christina, I love the kerrii blooms - look at those perfectly placed little sap droplets - nature is amazing.
Ann
I am so excited now...my H. serpens is covered with developing buds!!!
Carol
OK, people. Spill those beans. How do you keep your serpens happy enough to bloom???
Please tell us.
Ann
Cool winter temps was the secret for mine. When I kept it in the house over winter...it never bloomed. Nightime temps here get into the low 40s & it must have loved it. I do keep it on a covered porch where it is protected from cold drafts and rain.
Marcy
Mine took off like a raped ape when I hung her in a very shady spot totally open to the tradewinds (prevailing winds). .. When she was a little kid I grew her in the shade outdoors under the bamboo and she got lots of moisture.... When I hung her in more light she stopped growing....
Wintertime I keep my serpens in a north facing window in a room that is rather cool since the radiators do not function very well in this particular room. In addition to this north facing window there also is a rather small east facing window so the room is quite light - but no direct sun. Summertime I have my serpens outside on my balcony so it gets cool nights and warm days.
So it seems like it needs some cool temps sometime.
I don't let it dry up.
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Thanks for the posts! I just might try a serpens again someday, now that I have some guidance.
Ann
Amazing flowers everyone! I can only dream of flowers on most of mine right now as they're too immature.
However, I discovered two sets of buds on H.Carnosa Rubra (Krimson Princess) - its first since 2004! Its a happy Sunday. Also have buds on H.Pubicalyx Pink Silver and the very slow but hanging on H. cv Christine.
H.Carnosa and H.Multiflora are blooming their little hearts out as usual.
Christine
My hypolasia just opened up. Really cool flowers! I hope you like them too.
Christina
Oooohhhhh, I like them. What a beautiful shot! The leaves look lovely too.
Quivering with jealousy,
ann
Do they have a smell?
Beautiful flowers and great picture as well.
Marcy ....busy adding to her hoya wish list.
Thanks for your comments!
No fragrance yet, but I'll keep sniffing it at different times so perhaps...
Christina
Oh, this one is different. Has this one bloomed for you befor? I hope your sniffer detects a scent. Very pretty flower and picture...
I love this one! Does it have thin stems or thicker ones? -joanne
Tami, this is the first time it's blooming. I got it as a cutting a year ago, so I'm quite happy with it! I see one more peduncle coming!
Joanne, this hoya has among the thinnest stems you can think of. Mature older stems are about 2 mm thick and the rest is only 1 mm. The peduncle is really long (4,5 inches) and thin (only 1 mm) and you'd think it would break.
First time bloomers are always something "extra".
Christina
