Just got home from a trip to the coast and picked this up on my way back. I believe it to be a basic carnosa but for $5 I couldn't say no. THe stems are long and look at the blooms! It has yellow growth on the top that may or may not make it. WAY too much light. Now I don't have to wait for my one little carnosa cutting to bloom! Have a great day! -joanne
Closer bloom pic...
Wow, Joanne, that is a beautiful plant. The string of blooms almost look like a garland/decoration. I can't blame you a bit for buying a second one, even if you have a carnosa. How does it smell? Sometimes to assuage my guilt for buying a "second", I will pot them in the same pot, it makes a bigger plant, and leaves space in the house for more. Haa! DH is catching on though, he realizes that plants often are combined, to just make room for more plants. And I thought that he wasn't cognisant of much beyond football, basketball, ESPN.......
Sara
Great deal, Joanne. I wish it could happen to me!
Don Ü
What a wonderful looking plant. And what a great buy!! Wish I could run into something like that.
Binky :)))))
Sara, I think we may be we were twins seperated at birth :~) I do the same thing, combining plants for more room! If the DH has noticed, he's being quiet. Actualy I am blessed to have an indulgent understanding DH. Well, at least when it comes to plants! He's a veggie grower at heart.
This particular green house is moving and will be having a big sale after they transport the plants they are keeping. The owner will call me when that happens and I will buy the best of what she has left and pass them on to anyone who wants them. They are quite neglected and some are totaly gone. This one had lots of cotton mealies which took a shower in 50/50 alcohol spray. I will keep it away from the others and respray again. For that price, with 7 bloom bundles, I had to have it. I aslo picked up a 'string of hearts', a stapelia, a ceropegia and a variegated uphorbia trigona which is so sun bleached we'll see if it survives.
She has a totally yellow H. kerrii that is HUGE and in FULL bloom. I didn't see the blooms until I felt drops on my head and realized it was one or many kerrii blooms dripping on me!
Have a great night! -joanne
Great find Joanne, One can never turn down a flowering hoya !!! One of these days you will wake up and realize that you several carnosa that you just couldn't turn away.....
Wow, Joanne, how fun, what better way to get messy, than sap dripping on your head! :) Was the kerrii variegated, or was it yellow from the sun? Really, DH is a good sport, I just enjoy poking whatever fun I can at him! He likes to give the impression that he doesn't like my plants, but just let me try to give one away, and the protests fly. (He pretends to hate my 4 cats, and two dogs, too, but is the first one to call on his way to work if he thinks one may have gotten out, and he spotted it).
I combine "sames" at my house because I only grow indoors, and my rule is one POT of each plant, no duplicate pots. I tried for no duplicate plants, but it just didn't happen! HA! Rules were made to be bent in my case, or as my kids say, I bend the rules when it suits me, but never when it suits them. Oh the privileges that come with being the mom.
Please keep us updated on all of your great finds.
Sara
LOL!!
So you're a 'rule-bending mom', too?!
I really hate to use "Because I'm the mom!" as a reason.....but I do, sometimes, too.
Definitely worth every penny of that 5 spot, Joanne!
That's more blooms at once than some of mine *combined* have put forth in the years I've owned them!
