Please, can I be the one to start this new thread - I actually have contributions - YIPEEEEE!!! This may never happen again!!!
Anyway, I have buds on peduncles (which, for me, are as good as flowers!):
h. archiboldiana
h. lacunosa
h. multiflora/javanica ?(sorry - too excited and forgot to look up the correct name)
h. callistophylla
h. heuschkeliana
NOW, does anyone want to buy Le Poop de St. Bernard??
Karen
This message was edited Jul 2, 2006 11:24 AM
July Buds n' Blooms
Great growing there Karen! Gongratulations!
I'm not even going to tell how much is blooming and how much is in bud at the moment. However, I have first time peduncles and tiny buds in pimenteliana and samoensis.
Christina
Wow...neat ones too. I had a couple of buds forming on my archie, but they blasted. Get your camera ready.
Marcy
I am new to this forum, but not to the others that are out there. I would love to say that this is well worth the $15 to join, and am trying to refrain from berating myself for not doing it sooner. I am thrilled that for one of my first posts, I can add a flower picture!!! Yippee! Here is my aff. finlasonii bloom, second set for me.
Thanks for the great forum everyone.
Sara
Welcome, Sara! GREAT flower!
Karen
Thanks, Marcy and Christina!!
This message was edited Jul 2, 2006 11:31 AM
Wow...Im jealous. Everyone is getting that plant to bloom and I have 3 of those with lots of leaves...no blooms. I do however love the leaves on those anyway so it's OK....I guess. ha
Congrats on your success.
Marcy
Sara, welcome to the forum from a former resident of GF MT !! :)
I know how excited you must be Karen.....and I only had 2 with buds. I can now speak with experience though, when I say that once they start blooming they keep blooming. My lacunosa bloomed less than a month ago and the same peduncle already has another bunch of buds that are growing like crazy and the two other cuttings in the pot have small peduncles as well. I guess I can't call them cuttings any more now that they're blooming.
Your finlaysonii flowers are lovely Sara. I have a cutting of that one that is just starting to grow really well. It's nice to see what I have to look forward to some day.
Sandy
Welcome to the forum Sara! Congrats on the blooms.
Susan
Thank you for the warm welcome. Sometimes joining new forums brings back a little of the uncertainty of starting a new school! Not so here. Talk about a small world....a former Great Falls resident...wow. My finlaysonii didn't do much for about a year after getting it, then it just took off and shows no signs of stopping. I am in absolute zone envy of almost everyone here, except I think, the Arizona group. We are dry, but generally the highs top out in the high 90's. I always wish for humidity until I go east to visit realitives, and can't seem to dry off.
Sara
HI Sara...glad you joined us. Like any family, we get disfunctional at times...but basically we are all OK. LOL
Hi Sara and welcome! Your finlaysonii is looking great!
Woohoo..way to grow karen :)
Karen see what a wonderful dose of Arizona sunshine can do for your hoyas? Congrats girl!!
Blessings,
Awanda
Welcome Sara !!!! Good growing ladies......................I want flowers Too................Sandy
Sara wait until winter and you'll have a lot of Arizona zone envy, just ask Karen and Sistah Betsy:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
Welcome Sarah! Congrats on those wonderful blooms!!!
And, of course, hooray's to Karen, Christina, and Christine for the buds! I wanna see pictures of those blooms!
Actually, I would love for people to take pictures of the peduncle with buds just starting to form, all the way through fully opened blooms. I would love to see photographs of those different stages of growth through bloom - to me that is part of the fun of growing these plants.
Ann
Karen - Oh I'm SO JEALOUS! You have all these buds! But I'm happy for you toooo! =0)
Sara - welcome aboard! We're a wild and crazy bunch - very diverse, all levels of knowledge and expertise and we're glad you joined us.
And yes, tis true what Sistah A said - she can send you lots of Arizona sunshine and it'll make your hoyas go crazy! =0)
Congrats on EVERYONE's buds.!!!!
Some new blooms for me:
H. latifolia
H. macgillivrayi (opened today...WOW)
Others blooming:
H. archboldiana
H. ischnopus
H. cembra
H. cv. Iris Marie
H. purpureo fusca
H. shepherdii
H. cv. Minibelle
H. lamingtoniae
H. naumanii
H. dimorpha
H. cv. Noelle
H. vitellina
H. lacunosassssssss
H. obscura
H. pimentaliana
H. 'T'
H. sp. Nong Nooch
H. sp. IML 1420
H. imbricata
H. glabra - way up in the tree where she is growing...I can barely make them out!!!
H. cv. Monette
H. erythrostemma
H. cumingiana
H. mindorensis
Bob says the house smells like a fancy bordello at night with all the blooms....
Oh, happy day...
ON THE HORIZON
H. multiflora (my new variegated one from Thailand)
H. samoensis (second blush of another 30 blooms)
H. doliocosparte
H. wallichii
H. onychoides
I just wish I had photo talent like Christina and Ann.... :(
Well, Carol... If you pay for the trip to Hawaii for both me and Ann we'd love to come and give you photo lessons for free. The trip will be enough "payment" - at least for me!
Ann, I take those kind of photos but it seems I never get the time to edit them and do something with them...
Great to hear of everybodys buds and blooms!
Christina
July started with blooms in my densifolia. A spicy smelling hoya.
Edit: ...and where is the picture??
This message was edited Jul 3, 2006 7:01 AM
And a closeup
Try again with the densifolia picture
Awanda, that really made me laugh. Just getting comfortable with spring and wearing shorts, and you had to make me think about the fact that winter weather and -30 with the wind chill is not as far around the corner as it should be. Thanks a ton for popping my happy summer bubble. :) I just can't think of wool socks and hibernation.....it is so wrong.
Thinking happy hoya folower thoughts.....
Sara
Ahem, Sara, having lived in GF for 7 years I can attest to the wanting the AZ sun, when it got below -40 I was ready to move anywhere but GF (so we did and went to FL, NOW that was a shock to the system!!!)
Enjoy what is left of the summer, I am painfully (still) aware of how short the summer is there, (and the two weeks of 100° weather) just like I am aware of Lotta's and Christina's winters (fantastiske planter og bilder, gratulerer!!) since I grew up in Norway!!
WOW WOW WOW, Lotta. What a beautiful bloom and gorgeous photos! I can't believe the color of those blooms. I love the little hairs on the pedicel.
I seriously can't get over the colors of the blooms. I know this sounds insane, but they look like candy and I want to eat them.
Congrats, Lotta.
Ann
(P.S. I just learned that term "pedicel" from one of Ann Wayman's posts. It is the flower stem. WooHoo, I learned something!).
Pretty multiflora/javonica blooms too, Becky. Where did you grow up at in Norway?
Ann
Hi Ann, I grew up in the very far, dark in winter, midnight sun in summer north!! In a town called Tromsø! I have seen some of the most amazing plants there, and I can vaguely remember my aunt having a window full of Hoyas! In a typical Scandinavian home you will find lots and lots of indoor plants, I think its cause it's so danged dark in the winter, we need something to look at and dream of green!! I was just home and about died in the flower shops, unable to take any of them back to the states!!
Thank you ladies =)
Gorgeous blooms Lotta and Becky. I have a couple of multiflora cuttings rooting....well, one is rooting and I have my fingers crossed for the other. I love the blooms on them and can hardly wait to have a plant as I understand that they bloom a lot.
Sandy
That is stunning, Becky. Oh, I can imagine what it must feel like to not be able to bring the pretty plants back. I look at some of the photos from Christina and Rosita at a flower exhibit - all these huge, healthy hoya plants - and I want to take a trip to Sweden, buy up all the plants, and create my own personal jungle. Then I reality sets in and I realize they would not let me back into this country with all those plants. Arrrggh.
Again, what a beautiful picture. Thanks for sharing it.
Ann
BecNoVa...one of my dearest friends lives in Tromso (I don't have that special letter on my keyboard)... I am thinking of visiting her next summer....when is the BEST month?
Then...weeeelllllll, maybe I will slide on down to visit the Swedes....????
Well, hopefully my little H. benguentensis is going to bloom. The buds are flattened out but I don't see the definition of lines on the corolla that tells me it's getting closer to opening.
Nice photos ladies and congrats on the blooms.
Lotta, I really like the H. densifolia. Are the corollas the green-yellow that they appear or are they more yellow?
Susan
Susan,
Thank you for your comment regarding my densifolia!
The colour tends to vary a bit from time to time. This time the corollas are very greenish as the picture shows, but sometimes they are more yellow.
Lotta
Lotta...does it smell like H. cumingiana to you? It looks very similar in the flower. I think the plants are quite similar also, but I do see differences. My densifolia has not bloomed yet.
Marcy
Marcy,
For me it's the other way round. My cumingiana hasn't bloomed and I've never seen or smelled cumingiana flowers IRL so I can't compare them.
I'm a little confused I must say concerning the similarities and differencies between cumingiana and densifolia. As I said, my cumingina hasn't bloomed so I can't compare the flowers but as for the leaves there is a clear difference. The densifolia leaves are much bigger. But I know you shouldn't identify a hoya by the leaves.... I'm confused...
If you look into the IPNI it says: "Notes: =Cumingiana" when you search on densifolia.
Lotta
I also see a very distinct difference in the leaves of the two plants. cumingiana's are rounder and thicker. Even the stems are different, and the plant is bigger. My cumingiana has bloomed twice. It looks very much like your densifloia flower, however I don't see subtle differences like the experts do, so there could be a big difference that I am not seeing. To me, many of the carnosa type flowers look alike but others point out differences.
The flowers I got smelled strong, but it was a strange smell. Paul said they smelled like cleaning fluid (like Pine Sol) or something with amonia. Ha.
I think they smelled better than that, but not real sweet either. Very strange.
Marcy
Marcy,
I'm rather new in this business so I don't have a trained eye for the small differences in the different species. Still learning =)
The smell - hmmm, I don't know how to describe it. Spicy, maybe...a strange, rather good smell. We have had several discussions at home about the smell, but no one can put the finger on what it smells like.
As someone said here before - it's a pity you can't send smells by the Internet =)).
I saw H. cumingiana being sold here as the Coconut Plant! I think it does smell like Coconut with some allspice in it.