Girls- I want a bed on everyones porchs......Oh how nice everything looks ! ! I have been working on a green house for about a year that may get finished this Summer.......
I just got pots from my Sis Tami and have been getting everone reset in better dirt ect....
Will need more pots befor I am finished TAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII------------
Sandy
Where do YOU keep your Hoyas?
Hey betsy..what is the large one on the tomato cage? too pretty and soo BIG!
Lorry - ya mean THIS ONE?
It's just a plain ol Carnosa Crimson Princess or whatever it's called today..! =0) It's one of two hoyas that I've had for about 5 years - neither of which have EVER bloomed. Go figure. I moved it out onto the screened-in porch a week or so ago hoping the bright indirect light will spur it into bloom. There are a couple peduncles, but never any action from them.
Oh, and....it's not a tomato cage - its an black metal tee-pee like thing..
edited to say ....they call it an "OBLESQUE" or some such thing! =0)
B
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Viv you have a beautiful plant area too! Welcome aboard! Sis Betsy (new name now) I should have my larger greenhouse up by fall, so I will gladly take some of your hoyas since you won't have room for all of them:-). I'll even send you monthly updates and pictures of how well they are doing in our warm winter Arizona sunshine:-)
Blessings,
Awanda the generous:-)
This message was edited Jun 29, 2006 4:50 PM
Thanks for the welcome, I'll be spending lots of time here.
Viv
Sistah A - you've tried this ploy before. Didn't work then...ain't gonna work now. So ya might as well give up!
=0)
I loev what you did with it Betsy :) and my picta (exotica) is still one of my favorites :) so dont' knock the good ole carnosas :)
inside:
outside:
Beautiful, Mark. Gatherings must be delightful out in that courtyard area.
Ann
Oh just wonderful, I just got the urge to go play plants. Mark what is that plant in the bottom right hand corner? It is getting a really pretty tinge of pink on it's leaves.
Oh Awanda you do need some intervention... Way out of control women.....
You who Sandy dear show us pictures of your greenhouse. Come on don't be shy, load um up...
Betsy I love your exotica on your Tee Pee, really a pretty plant.
Tami, just an old variagated rubber plant. They like it outside in CA.
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Hey Mark (ex-Mt. Zion-ite, right?)...
I looove your windows! Cool idea to let your plants grow up the bars on the outside of your windows. Wow - some of your hoyas are HUGE!
B
Great Windows! Great place for hoyas! I love the slant of the street!
Well, my pics are all on my other computer, so will have to wait until I get back home. Most of you have seen my full windows and overloaded olive tree, but I think I have a few newer ones when I get access to them.
Betsy, that screened in porch looks like it could easily be converted into a fantastic sunroom for the winter by just adding windows where the screens are. In fact, you could even have it be so that they were removeable & convert back & forth from sunroom to screen porch. (my brain is always spinning with ideas. Ha).
Karen..your plant rack on the porch looks like it is in the sun. Isn't that too sunny there for hoyas or was that just the time of day it was?
Fantastic plant places you gals & guys all have. Amazing the things & places we come up with to take care of our plant babies, huh?
Marcy
Marcy - it does look like that, I just rechecked that picture! Part of it was the time of day I took the picture, but the hoyas are never actually in full sun - they are "shaded" by a small overhang on the roof. They get sun, just aren't sitting in it.
Tamni..I have a couple rooted variegated rubber trees :) Small enought i ship if you would like one :)
Now Sistah B, is that anyway to act? I'm just trying to help you out, being the sweet, wonderful Pastor's wife that I am:-).
Blessings,
Sistah A
LOL..you two *sistahs* are just TOO FUNNY!
Awanda is soooooo innocent, dontcha know Ü
I took a photo of the pots hanging in the trees last night, and then forgot to bring the camera with me!
Just as well...it looked really 'hokey'!! LOL!!
Ok I took some photos today :) Some I am still working on since they are hard to take during the day
(too much backlight!)
This is my new plantstand that I got at biglots..it was only 60.00 and SOOOOO pretty
I love the trellises on top also..which I got on ebay in a case of 6 :)
On top photo...except for the butterfly one..that one I got for 2.25 on ebay :)
Here is a smaller plant stand in my kitchen nook...be kind about the floor...we are in the midst of retiling :)
On photo above..the foot is of one of my mutts..IGNORE the foot :)
This is of my outside patio area
The red guy :)
The window box!
Tucked ina corner of my florida room
Another stand..not initially meant for hoyas..but they seem to be taking over!
Another of the patio
And my monster carnosa..still in the midst of being tamed..he is usually further back and more shaded. but hubby is putting down rock :)
Good Golly Miss Lorry! I know where to come and hang if I want to be in hoya heaven and can't make it across the lake to Hawaii! Your plants are beautiful and I love the view you have. Bust out the roll-away sister, I'm commin' to Florida.
HeeHee,
Ann
Beautiful, Lorry!!
The shade house....6 poles, a roof and 70% shade cloth. There are two outside rows of hoya and two inside rows.
Eriostemmas on the outside to make use of the sun.
On the inner post side of each there is aluminum U channel and wiggle wire from FarmTek so I can stretch plastic on all sides for the winter. By then the hoya are all in the greenhouse and the "step child" plants take this area over.
Rebar is a wonderful thing. It's inexpensive and very strong. Hang a few hooks, slide the rebar between them and you have an instant LOoong stretch of hanging space.
Some live under the overhang from my roof. If they need less sun, or have had too much water they hang here for awhile.
Oh, Susan, I LOVE your shade house!! And sooo many plants!!! Wow!!
Oh geez Karen, you haven't seen half of them yet. This is really sick....
I have 5 garment racks of hoya...here's one. They are underneath my pecan trees right now to make use of the dappled sunlight. $10.00 each from the local dept. store when they were replacing theirs. Sturdy and moveable, but they're going to rust sooner or later.
I hang them in the trees too on anything that I can strap onto or bungie cord to the trees to hold them.
I am going to have a BIG problem in the fall as a couple of these have taken off and attached to the tree bark. I wish I had the guts to cut the vines loose.
Oh. My. Gosh. Susan, your plants are GORGEOUS!!!!
Hoya shelves up against the house. I purchased the metal baskets at IKEA one year. Went back to get more and they were gone. Perfect because of the openness and they're sturdy non rusting aluminum. If I had more I would cut down top row of metal away to make some shelves that are less deep for the smaller pots. I move stuff around alot.
