Absolutely stunning!
November Blooms
Carol
I can't wait until our cruise in Feb. I'm gonna think I've died and gone to heaven.
Jeri
Carol, I know it may be a lot to ask, but would you be willing to pull down one of those lovely lauterbachii blooms and photograph it close-up for us? I'd love to see a more detailed shot. This has always been one of my favorites, but I don't feel up to trying to nurse an eriostemma through a gray SF winter!
Mark...I would if I could but I can't! It is WAY too high. I stood on a 12' step ladder and used my zoom to get that close....will see if Bob's camera will get a better shot on the zoom. It is so high that I can't get a 'top' shot, either!!
It should get closer in a month or two...then I can snatch one off the vine!
Carol
Awesome flowers, the H. coriacea is killing me, what a beauty. Do you have this one growing up a tree as well? Oh I love it.....
Those flowers look almost too good to be real. Just stunning. I have nothing but multiflora & of course Christmas cactus blooming. Nada on the hoyas. They are still putting out new growth from that beer fertilizer though. I am almost out, so I am stopping for the winter. Just water from now on. Temps are plummeting around here tonight but not quite down to freezing...just low 40s. Still I worry & hope everything I still have outside makes it OK. When you are used to tropical temps, this feels so cold. Ha.
Marcy
Why is it getting so COLD!!!! ??? We are expecting temps into the 50's tomorrow night. GREAT sleeping!
No Tami...I don't have it growing up a tree...but I think that's a great idea. The problem is that plants grows SO high that I no longer can really enjoy the flowers!!!! And it is a super idea...I think I will put one out!!!
Marcy...hope your temps don't get too low....
Carol
Here too! Freezing temps in the east bay, San Francisco is supposed to dip into the upper 30's, possibly lower tomorow night. Serpens and pauciflora came in for the night, but the pubicalyxs, polynuera, and H. Snowball are staying out. Yep, Marcy, I've grown rather thin-skinned after 11 years of CA, it feels like it's already below 32'.
Hey, Carol, can we quote you on that info about the lauterbachii? I would love to put it on my website.
My heuschkeliana is thinking about flowering, but I think it's going to be a few weeks yet... hope it's not going to be Christmas, as I'm going away! Apart from that, the ol' faithful pink schlumbergera is as happy as larry, flowering away!
We're going from a high of 68 today to a high of 38 tomorrow :0(
Forgot to say that we're also due for SNOW!!! :0( :0(
This message was edited Nov 29, 2006 8:13 AM
Tuesday of last week we had monsoon rains and high winds all day and night. The forecast high was to be around 50F well the high ended up being 38F for the day. Yesterday was rain almost all day but with higher temps. It was around 65-70 for a high.
The weather has been crazy everywhere going from high to low and dry to wet and everywhere in between all in the same week. Its' crazy!!
I found a big surprise in the hoya house this morning. Once a week I rotate all baskets/pots. I normally also check for new peduncles when i'm turning them. H. davidcummingii has been growing like wildfire all summer long but hasnt made any bloom spurs. Well today I found what I was looking for. It is loaded with them and some are at least an inch long!!
My hoyas were growing well as it was but since I started hitting them with this beer fertilizer they have really gone wild! I've got enough left to probably continue watering them with it through January and then i'll hold off for a while.
My H. coriacea has one single peduncle on it but the buds blasted and it hasnt put any new ones on since. The following hoyas have either bloomed recently or have newly formed peduncles on them::
davidcummingii--obovata--variegated verticillata--red buttons--nummularioides--fungii--mathilde--
and I cant tell just yet but it looks like my H. magnifica from DL is forming a peduncle at one leaf node.
dmichael
I just learned something I've been doing wrong and wanted to share so nobody else makes this mistake. After my hoya bloomed I was breaking off the spent stubs. That's a no-no!! I was told not to do this as that is where next years flowers come from.
Hope this helps someone else.
Jeri
This message was edited Nov 29, 2006 11:13 AM
I hope everyones hoya's do O.K. outside over the next couple of days. It is 28 outside now and supposed to be a little warmer tomorrow. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 30 with a low of 12. It sure changed fast. All of the snow missed us, so that made me really happy. We got my GH put together over the weekend and I have been inside caulking, it is about 74 in there. Ha, it's warmer in there than the inside of my house.
Those lauterbachii flowers are really cool... doubt my little with now 4 leaves will ever bloom...
Here's another shot of my bloom crazy diversifolia!
Christina
This message was edited Nov 29, 2006 6:17 PM
Sure Hills...you can use that information. Can you give us a link to your website...?
Okay,so I just watched the local on the 8's for area on the weather channel. The forecast hight oday is 74. I got done running some errands about 20 minutes ago and I have to pass by at least a half dozen digital thermometers each one said that it was 83!! What happened to 74!!
And it looks like the cold temps that you all are having in CA, and AZ is moving my way. By the weekend we are supposed to have daytime highs of mid- low 50's to mid/low 40's with nights dropping into the low 30's
It's only gonna go down to about 60 tonight so all of my gh's will stay open.
I hate when the weather is like this. If it's going ot be cold I want it to get cold and stay cold or either be warm and stay warm,not all over the map like it has been being lately.
dmichael
Sure... my website is http://www.geocities.com/hi1ls . I'm currently trying to update it but am, as always, busy with work and house and what seems like one cold after another (sigh). I'm still trying to figure out what I need to put in as well. My hoyas just seem to grow, apart from the polyneura which is sulking in the corner and occasionally dropping leaves. I was trying to figure out why they'd all put on a growth spurt in the middle of winter until I worked out that I'd just put superthrive on them all and my heating is now working for the first time in a few weeks... duh! All it seems to do here is rain and be a "mild" 55...
This message was edited Nov 29, 2006 10:35 PM
Blooming calycina coming through!
Christina
And also incurvula or brevialata, whatever it is...
Christina
Beautiful!