My lobbii blooms for the first time ever now. Don't fancy the leaves very much, but the flowers are "quite OK".
June Blooms 2
And Christina, your hypolasia is also "quite OK" =)))
Oh...that is beautiful too. Thanks for sharing Lotta.
I don't have that one so enjoy seeing it.
Marcy
Beautiful flowers ladies! I love the H. lobbii.
Also, yoo hoo, Christina! Thanks for bringing me back down to earth with your comments about wishing you could grow outside while I am envying your environment.
I had a few cosmic hours in the garden on Saturday. For the most part the hoya are all lush, green and growing like weeds. Maybe it's just not time for some of them yet. The little H. benguentensis has sprouted a peduncle and is forming buds. If they blast I will be disappointed, but what the heck....
The brugmansia are still repeat blooming and the tropicals are going crazy.
Oh, Lotta that lobbii is beautiful!
Congratulations!
I have one getting ready to open and I hope it will look like yours.
Yayyyy,
Ann
Lotta your H. lobbii is wonderful, I have a small cutting of this one and can't wait for her to get big and bloom.
Christina, I am so envious that you can get a cutting to bloom within a year. :( Do tell what is your secret? Did you ever detect any smell?
I have a couple more blooming H. cv. Noelle, from the pimpette last order
H. hellwigiana, from the pimpette last order
H. verticillata again, third bloom for this hoya. And man is she putting on some growth and peduncles.
Oh, Geez, Tami. Those are some nice shots of beautiful blooms. How do the hellwigiana and verticillata smell?
Ann
H. hellwigiana has a beautiful strong scent, H. verticillata a light floral shop scent, but man a man I sure don't care for the scent of H. cv. Noelle.. Pewwww... Good thing she has a beautiful flower.
Nice pictures and flowers, Tami!
Now see, I liked the scent of cv. Noelle... couldn't stand the camphorifolia, though.
Ann
Ann, that is to funny, def. goes to show you how different every ones sniffer works. Haven't smelled camphorifolia yet. I do love the purple edges on Noelle corona, she def. gets purple dragonfly clips on her. She will just be so color cordinated !!!
Which smells better...H. Christine, or H. hellwigiana?
Marcy
Thanks for the comments of my lobbii!
Tami, the cv. Noelle is so beautiful. Love the combination of the two colours.
Tami, I don't know what I did to get flowers within a year. Same thing with siariae... I think it must be because just about everything else is blooming now so they must have been influensed by that... or something!
Tami, great shots of pretty flowers. Nice to see what my hellwigiana will look like.
Lotta, who can resist the flowers of lobbii? I like them when they are a little lighter in colour.
Christina
My so called red verticillata is blooming right now. It was red the first time it flowered and then after that they have been almost white, white with some pink on the corolla lobes, half pink and half white and this time more pink and some red on the corolla lobes. The flowers are not reflexed yet in the photo.
Christina
Oh I love pinks. It is very pretty. Are you disapointed in the color? I think it is still beautiful, and I love there smell. I am not to overwhelmed with the flower on hellwigiana, but she does smell good.
Marcy not sure about Christines smell, as I don't have her, but hellwigiana does smell good :)
Tami, I'm not disappointed at all. It's just that it was really red the first time and you'd expect it to be the same the next and the next, but this is the darkest it has been in years. Some day I hope it'll be as red as the first time... I like the stripes of white and pink - it looks almost like peppermint rock (had to look that one up).
Christina
That's amazing Christina! Are you sure that's H. verticillata? All of my flowers have been white, or greenish white. Never with the slightest hint of pink. Can you post a photo of the leaves?
Susan, you can find photos of the leaves here: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20verticillata%20red%20min.htm
I bought it as acuta 'Red' but since it's said acuta should be verticillata... Here it is fully opened and reflexed.
Christina
Oh Christina, I really like that one! Read your page and checked out the leaves. I love the color.
I imagine the color change has to do with habitat at the time it gets ready to bud. ?????
The intense summer heat tends to 'wash out' the color on H. pubicalyx Red Buttons. Also just had RHP bloom for the first time. Color was all faded. I will wait till it blooms again during the spring or fall to reserve judgment on same.
Oh, that red verticillata is so cute! I want one!!!
OK, that's going on my list.
Great photos too, Christina.
Ann
Oh she is a beauty, she still has some of her pepperment stripe. Very pretty. I went and looked on your website, she was a very pretty color, but I like it pink too.
Here is a first for me....H. citrina!!! YAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaY. I have waited years for this one...terrific scent...but the chocolate side is that the flowers only last a few days. But on this vine (s), actually 4 twisted together like a rope, there are dozens of blooms at various stages. The leaves are like H. glabra...big and beautiful...
Then after a couple of years of one bloom here....yawn....another umbel there.... This little things went berserk!!! It is a H. aff finlaysonii (so many!!) and the flowers only last one day but she is covered!!!!!
HOLY MOLY!!
And..... (this is SO exciting!!) ... an umbel and it is almost as big as the leaf!! This is what David Liddle has determined to be H. latifolia (IML 88). It is also known as H. diversifoliaB, H. loyceandresiana and H. aff latifolia (IML 88).
.....and this is what I am walking into when I come in the back of the GH (or the front...your choice). The flowers are dripping with nectar and if I forget it is there I get a huge sticky face! The flowers are so thick and new umbels forming.... AH, H. loherii
Hoya cembra (H. odorata) just outside the door to the porch where my desk is. I love the way she grows..
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I have to take this photo again...too glary... This I got from Anders Wenstrom last year...H. sp Thai#3. The leaves are really dark...the umbels start out very bright apple green and gradually turn cream and open...but the green is still really vibrant - for me..anyway. This is her first blooming and everyone nearly opened at once!!.
OMG Carol! The H. loherii is stunning!
Me & you online at the same time. Our posts just crossed each other. Aloha nani pua...
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Heres that Hoya...y'know the one...oh gosh, do I have to spell it out? Correctly?
H. tjadasmalanguensis (gotta go take a nap)...I told the fern to get out of the shot, but she insisted on being part. Ferns are weeds here...I swear I will strangle whoever brought the Boston Fern to Hawaii and let her strutt her stuff.
Oh wow Carol, you are having a bloomin time too. Congrats on all those beauties. I think it really does make a difference when you use Messenger, don't you?
Lovely shots of some wonderful blooms!
Marcy
Finally getting a chance to sit back and enjoy! Why does being away for 20 days justify another month flat out?! Some of the others blooming are H. kentiana, cv. Monette, H. naumanii, cv. Noelle, H. vitellinoides, IML 831, H. siariae, H. lamingtoniae, H. heuschkeliana, H. lobbii (now, I love her growth but she does tend to take over space), H. javanica (AKA H. multiflora), DC, cumingiana, imbricata, pubicalyx, ischnopus, diptera, sp. Tanna, purpureo fusca, bella, motoskei, guppyi, cv. Ruthie.
....anxiously awaited from the labor rooms are H shepherdii, cv. Minibelle, H. macgillivrayii IML 16 (I think), H. praetoria(lasantha, clemensiorum, archboldiana, IML 1420, doliocospharte, hellwigiana, the obscuras and a whole mess of lacunosas.... and some dischidea... H. samoensis is in her second flush covered with umbels and the verticillatas are about to all bloom again. This time, I think, in harmony.
At least I know that THOSE hoyas are happy where they are growing...now to see about the rest of them. Will this work ever end?
Carol - unbelieveable!! So, which of the ones that are blooming do you think would make it to Illinois in tact????
Wow Marcy...I didn't think of THAT!! I thought I finally hit the jackpot waiting all this time for H. citrina. You have to be right....it is the Messenger.
Isn't it funny how one person takes 4 years (or more) to bloom a plant, and another person with a plant "from the same litter" has blooms in 6 months to a year. I know that when I strike, say, 12 cuttings in a pot (if I put them all in one pot to root, then I don't have to run all over the place looking for them when they get potted up) and tip them out when 2-3 weeks have gone by...some will have beautiful big strapping roots, a few so-so and a bunch with not a sign of a root anywhere. Next time I am going to 'record" it...to see if their position in the pot influences it...but I doubt it.
Well...I guess I can now sing the praises of Messenger!!! I may have to give up drinking wine in order to afford it!!!!
Happy in Hawaii
Swimming, probably none of them... :>)))
Oh Carol, just beautiful. The leaf on the citrina is unbelievable. I like the leaves on tj. Oh heck they are all just soooo pretty. Do you think it is the messenger? Or just your wonderful climate? Really like the flower on Thai #3.