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Todays birthday lady!
And here it is next to Julians head... it is growing in a 8" pot and has totally crossed over at the bottom....a big cutting job ahead...
OH...I know it isn't an Epi...but that's what I call all of them.... it bloomed for me too....
OH OH OH....and H. latifolia IML 88 started the process. The umbel is HUGE...
Oh my gosh, that is a huuuuggggeeee plant. WOW... What a nice gift. And the latifolia is just beautiful. HURRY Sandy I need my hoya baby now!!!
Glorious growing things (including Julian)!!!
Beautiful, beautiful, and, did I mention, beautiful?!
Ann
We just came into the house from a meeting and there was this fragrance...WOW! Of course, I go to bed by 8:30 usually (alas...I do but I am up at 5) so the night around 10pm is a stranger... Holy Moly...the scent was Almond Joy!!! It is the H. latifolia!!! And the H. ischnopus outside the LR is full of blossoms...I cannot believe the fragrance....
Nighty night.....
Carol - ya know, livin' in Hawaii and growin all them hoyas is like living in a dream world for me - - BUT THEN TO WAKE UP TO THE SMELL OF ALMOND JOY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT....chocolate?!?!? .......now THAAAAAT's Heaven!!! =0)
p.s. GORGEOUS pictures!
Will you adopt me???
It is a shame so many of them wait until so late at night to release their scents. H. lacunosa smells good all day, but most of them only have faint scents if any all in the daylight hrs.
My 2 big H. shepherdiis are blooming now, and I have them hanging right outside my bedroom windows so that I smell them when I go to bed. In fact, I smell them the minute I walk into that room at night. Heavenly.
Non of my latifolias have ever boomed yet, but yours is so beautiful and if it smells that good, I am now anxious for that to happen too.
Your curtisii is wonderful. At least you don't have to worry about it being in that awful wet EA soil. Ha Ha
I go to bed early too, but usually read a bit (and smell the shepherdii) before actually going to sleep. Can't wait for Ann's book to be done. I asked Chris about her's the other day also, and she said it is almost finished too. Oh...I will be up LATE reading if I have all this hoya material to look at. Ha.
Marcy
Carol, why isn't that an epi? by the way Happy happy birthday! We are both June babies ;~) -joanne
It is? I thought epis were the 'season cactuses'...this flower is huge.... I am also told there are many ....'strombrugias"...etc. I sure wish I had time to learn them all...hoyas keep me pretty well occupied...so I just beg for help instead!!! LOL
Carol..I believe she is right..it is an epi.
The epis are the seasonal cactus but they are ALSO orchid cactus..which I believe is what you have there :)
Incredible curtsii by the way :) WOW