I moved H. clorantha out into the new shade house recently...and she has burst forth with blooms...12 in all with more coming....
November Blooms
very pretty Carol
Bea
Gloriously lucky Ms. Carol!
Lotta your H. thomsonii is really pretty. I love this plant too, but it is sooooo slow for me.
Carol your H. clorantha is just beautiful. Does this one bloom for you year round? Mine is still a toddler, but I am praying for peduncles this year.
Yes...it kinda bloomed one sorry little umbel at a time throughout the year...but this time it is going nuts!!!
H. halophylla is blooming now, too....will try to post a photo. Really fragrant too, like spicey butter.
Yippee...got the photo up... The leaves are very glabrous (shiney) and it is a compact grower...leaves are a light 'apple' green too. This umbel is on a very long stem...quite a lovely plant. From the back, the flowers look white!!!
Another photo....the whole umbel is about 3" across, so it is not 'tiny'.
H. sulawesi is at it again. I am really enjoying the heck out of this hoya. I loved the leaves on this hoya so much I ordered another one. Now to find out that it just loves to bloom it's little heart out, is just the icing on the cake, hmmm maybe I need three of them!!! Now my sister is trying to get my second plant from me. I told her I knew where she could order one !!! Of course now that it is in bloom maybe she will trade me her wooden snow goose for it and another hoya she has had her eye on. O.K. I have a decoy fetish too:)
Carol your hoya flowers are really pretty, wow and 3" across, amazing.
Tami is your H. sulawesi the same as the sulawesi 8865 that Carol has? That is one that I recently ordered from Paul Shirley.
dmichael
David I did get them from Carol. I don't know what GPS# she has, but if you've checked it out then it is the same. I did see that you got a sulawesi from him, I was hoping that it was a different one so we could trade ;) He has a really pretty yellow one I am going to order. How do you like the leaves?
I actually got mine from Chris Burton (a few lifetimes ago) who received it as H. salweenica (I think) ... at least she had gotten it as another hoya from Paul Shirley and told me it was the true H. sulawesi. It is one of my favorite hoyas...the leaves are so cool in high light and it just blooms and blooms and blooms!!!
Carol
Carol and Tami - Nice flowers! And yippee for me - I have a Sulawesi from Carol, too....now, if mine would only bloom.....
Nice flowers everyone!
Here's one that started blooming the other day... cembra.
Christina
And my diversifolia is blooming like never before. Here's one when it just started a few days ago. Will get new photos today!
Christina
And little faithful cv. Sunrise.
Christina
Oh, Christina...beautiful!!!! Don't you just love cv. Sunrise?
Glorious, Christina!!
Beautiful Christina, c.v. Sunrise looks like a Lacunosa flower, is it a cross with that species?
Roy
Beautiful as always, Christina!!!
They are all too preety:) What does sunrise smell like? Does it smell are preety as it looks?
Bea
Please forgive the blurriness of these photos....but here's Betsy's DS-70 blooming it's little heart out in the greenhouse.
And here's my first carnosa bloom (also out in the greenhouse) - AND the plant has several more peduncles with buds! Yea - FINALLY!!
And last but not least, old faithful (for me) cv Sunrise (in the house). Karen
Karen
I just love your greenhouse. I could spend all my time out there with all those lovely little babies.
Jeri
Great blooms, Karen. Doncha just love cv. Sunrise.... Roy...cv. Sunrise is a cross between H. obscura and H. lacunosa.....and the fragrance is of good scented soap...vry pleasant, don't you think, Karen?
Carol
Thanks, Jeri - I just love being out in the greenhouse - it puts me in a good mood every time I'm out there! And thanks, Carol - yes, the scent is wonderful - I'd love a soap or lotion made from it!
Karen
Today H. waymaniae suprised me with it's first peduncle- nearly 5 inches long, straight as an arrow, and with a set of healthy looking buds. Does that warrant a Happy Dance? I think so, and especially since my Hoyas have been stubbornly not blooming much through the fall, making waymaniae only my second to the 'Buds and Blooms" thread (amazing no one has stolen the idea yet, huh?)
Oh...doing the 'Happy Dance'.... gag. Actually, this is a first time for me...and I can't tell you what the fragrance is because it is about 20' UP and I can't get to it!!! But my 'guesstimate' is that the flowers are at least 3" across and the 'bell' shape is about 3" deep. Just spectacular!!! I have been waiting for H. lauterbachii to bloom for a couple of years and today I looked UP....and nearly fell down!!! I shall have to make some cuts and plant it around the property....really spectacular!!!! I will try to get the ladder tomorrow and get up higher and closer. Sorry for the blurry photo...I am afraid it is ME!!!
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Yippeeee, Karen and Mark!!!!
OK, Mark. I need to know ... light, humidity, temperature, water regimen ... how'd you get it to develop a peduncle?
Ann
I'm shakin' my thang for you Carol!! What a beauty!!!
Happy Dancin' Happy Happy Dancin' ... ooh oooh.
:-)
3" Carol that is remarkable. I had no idea. I learn something everytime you post.
Jeri
That hoya, H. lauterbachii, is one of the parents of H. cv. Monette and H. cv. Isabelle....
Carol, you have to get a better photo, but taken from just the same vantage point as that last one. It'll be perfect.
Ann, nothing special for the waymaniae, the thing sits near a south facing window but with only a few hours of direct light, watering once a week (IF it uses what I gave it last week, else it goes without, as it's supposed to be fussy about overwatering). It's grown like a weed ever since I got it, and has never slowed down or given me any problem whatsoever. One of the most carefree Hoyas I have, to date.
Dontcha just love H. waymaniae....I am told it is a real substory hoya...creeping along the ground on the floor of the forest....thrives in deep shade. Grown in high light the leaves get redish/orange and the flowers are orange and it is called (by whom?) the 'Halloween Hoya'. I really like it. It is one of those quiet growers that suddenly blooms and.... WOW.
Mark...please take a photo of the bloom....they are so cool and not easy to come by!!!
Nice, Mark and Carol!! Carol - what does lauterbachi like in terms of water, light, etc.? I have h. lauterbachi - it's doing "ok", but after seeing this flower, I sure want it to grow!! Thanks - Karen
H. lauterbachii is an Eriostemma - a 'section' (man-contrived, of course) that are considered terrestial - they generally are growing along the forest floor looking for something to climb up. Once they find it, they scramble up until they get into their preferred light in the tops or near tops of the trees, then hang down and bloom. When they hang down, all the way, they hit the ground and scramble along the forest floor looking......etc. I find they are happiest in a shallow pot (rather than deep...I use a lot of bulb pots) and I let them go UP something. To bloom they want a lot of very HIGH light - even direct sun and warmth. I think that if you 'give it the bit' and let it climb UP something in your greenhouse you should see blooms.
They will bloom in pots - cv. Ruthie and cv. Monette are very prone to bloom in pots... Air circulation is important....and don't keep them too wet, either. My H. affinis is finally a big plant because I held back on the water!
HTH
Thanks, Carol - it does help!
Mo'bettah picture of H. lauterbachii - morning light... The leaves, for comparison are about 5" long.
This is a bit dark...but I wanted to show how 'bell shaped' ;it is....and the outside of the flower is bright green!
H. coriacea...it has 11 blooms this size!!!! The little Sphinx Moth is at it every morning and night....seed pods? And a little green bird (Japanese White Eye)comes every morning to clean the insects off.....
