LOL.......Jen and Mark, you are too funny. Perhaps sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, but it is the one that I most relate to!
Ahhhhhh Carol, beautiful flowers! You sent me a cutting of the white on white erythrostemma, and now I am just dying to see what color blooms I end up with!!
S
August Blooms
thats ok Mark, I am always shooting my mouth off, and I actually like Shakespeare, so I will let you slide on it this time. I wasn't REALLY being sarcastic though, just jerking your chain a little if you know what I mean....:-)
Beautiful flowers every one --- congratulations
Lourdes =)
I think Sara was calling ME on being sarcastic, ahem.
Sarcasm: The brain's defense against stupid! (at least that's what it says on my t-shirt)
:-)
Ummmmm Mark, I think that you will forever be "Shakespeare" to me........I prefer to think of sarcastic humor as "dry". Much classier really.
S
The brand of Ohid Bark at Home Depot is Gubler Orchid Mix, 4 dry quarts. I dump one bag into the sink and then fill the bag with 3/4 of perlite and mix together and soak it overnight and pot away.
Yesterdy on a bumper sticker I read. Ya just can't fix stupid.
Even classier- "urbane", suggestive of one raised eyebrow, an ascot and an Egyptian cigarette in a long holder, all of which I affect whenever I sit at my computer.
Anyway...
H. lacunosa "Poonsak", flowering for the first time. The flowers are smaller than most clones of lacunosa, just 4mm across, but the smell is intense. Exactly like var. pallidiflora but more concentrated.
H. arnottiana budding up (finally).
OMG, Mark. I didn't know that you and I both dressed exactly the same while at our computers! Of course, that's all that I wear (a raised eyebrow, and ascot, and an Egyptian cigarette in a long holder) while computing.
Beautiful blooms everyone!!!
Ann
Ok you guys......I originally thought that an ascot was a velvet smoking jacket, and Ann thank you very much, but I pictured it!!
Then, I looked it up, and here is what I got for ascot: Definition:
wide cravat: a broad cravat with square ends, often held in place with an ornamental stud
Now, again, I pictured it, but must ask, do you both hold them in place with an ornamental stud? HaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaa!!! Yes Mark, you win, urbane is MUCH classier than dry. :) Far too few August blooms right now, and way too much time.
Sara
Ya'all dress when you're at the computer?
"grin"
Here's fungii - I'm so proud of this one! Faintly spicy fragrance.
Karen
All the bloomers are really beautiful as are the pictures.
Mark..how do you take such CLEAR close ups? Mine are always blurry. That arnottiana bud looks like you were INSIDE the plant.
Carol-your bloom pics are stunning too. I can't wait for some of mine like those to bloom. I have 2 kinds of erythrostemma from you, but no blooms on either one yet. They are growing nicely though.
Karen...as I was looking at your picture of the fungii, I noticed the corn field in the background and it reminded me of home on the farm in Indiana. Calif. has it's niceties, but lots of times in mid summer I long for those wide open fields, woods, and nighttime lightning bugs of the place I left behind.
I have a snowball one too, but it must be motoskei as the flower is big, round and white. The leaves are much like my other motoskei too. I never heard of a pink one. Who sells that one?
You guys cracked me up with this hilarious thread this morning.
I had to look up ascot too. (No class here..ha ha). Then when I thought of you all sitting at your puters...it was a riot.
Marcy
I just happily recieved carnosa snowball in a trade, and it really doesn't look like the motoskei I have - Marcy, do you remember if you the one that sent me the motoskei cutting, back when I got those little white hanging pots from you last summer? I know you sent me polynuera and pauciflora, but I got a motoskei cutting at the same time and I can't remember if it was from you or someone in St Louis...anyway, they are very different looking, both in shade of green and leaf shape.
By the way, I don't know about the midwest, but the lightening bugs of my childhood are becoming scarce around here....
nope ...wasn't me. It took me a while to get my snowball growing, so I have not sent anyone cuttings of that one.
My 'Snowball' was a slow starter, too. I think mine is the pink-flowered variety, not motoskei. It came from Bob Smoley. No blooms yet, but it has wonderful foliage- large leaves with lighter veining and silver splotches that turn pink in bright light.
I have no idea what this hoya actually is, aside from it is obviously in the carnosa group.
See this old thread:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/529101
I've got a few blooms to share this month so far....
First bloom on verticullata
Lacunosa again
Obovata
Heuschkeliana is full of buds and blooms
This one was labeled as Pubicalyx 'Red Buttons', but I am wondering if it is actually chimera?
Gorgeous!!!!
Beautiful!!
Hey Marcy, my secret is auto-focus! And a tripod. I got a new camera, and it's kind of hard to take a bad picture with, though the shutter controls are a bit tricky to learn.
Blue Eyes... Both Red Buttons and Hawaiian Royal Purple has that tendency to get chimeric (is that a word??). It has to do with the sugars and warmth, especially if high light hits the flowers....the sugars migrate within the flower - or something like that. I know Kloppenberg published a hoya called Chimera...but he didn't need to. ;>)
Edited to say your flowers are terrific!!!! Don't you love H. verticillata?
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Thanks Carol.....I think it makes a neat effect on the blooms. I do love the verticullata, I have had it for several years and this year it is finally blooming! It has a few more spurs so it'll be putting on a show soon.
:) Kim
Hi folks
Well, this picture caused me to throw my plants around a bit more - just can't seem to make them stand upright sometimes! I thought you guys might find it interesting though - on the left are four flowers from Hoya engleriana, and on the left, seven flowers from Hoya Bella.
I fed my plants on that beer fertilizer the other day and I think I put it on too strong - they're growing like they were on drugs! Ooops!
Here's my Hoya retusa flowering for the first time for me. It just won me second prize in the local village show! Yay!
And here's my Hoya multiflora opening up. I left my hoyas hiding upstairs at my folk's place, only to come back and be told they're definitely going to get cuttings of this one!!!
Congratulations, hills! 8>)
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Blue eyes - That is probably the prettiest picture I have ever seen of obovata flowers
First, TamiF, Great blooms. I have one that I got as a cutting and it has bloomed like crazy from the begining but only three inflos. I think mine might be different because it has lighter colored blooms than some I have seen.
The rest of y'alls pictures are great too. Lovely blooms and several I don't have.
Tami
Hills, how about a shot of the whole retusa plant?
Hills and TamiXWP, those are great shots!
edited to say ... I've always been a little afraid of the H. retusa. How is it to grow Hills? Is it pretty temperamental. or just like most other hoyas?
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Ann, I find H. retusa to be a very easy one to grow. I got mine on ebay last year from Ric. It was in a 4" pot very similar in size to the one that he had listed on there recently. It is now close to being 4ft long and has made a very nice full 6" basket. I'm still waiting to see flowers but this hoya is well worth growing for the foliage alone.
dmichael
How do you grow it dmichael?
Ann
It gets very bright indirect light almost all day long as none of my gh' have any trees near them. I do have shade clothes on 2 of them but they still allow bright light in.It gets plenty of air movement as all of my hoyas do and I tend to let it dry out somewhat betweens waterings because I read someplace that it didnt like to stay too wet.
I have tried many times to get a picture of this plant to post on the forums but try as I might I can not get a good one!! It's an awesome plant though!!
dmichael
I try to grow my dry...but I have such a 'thing' about 'here, have something to drink'!!!! When I do grow it dry it grows beautifully. H. pauciflora too, which is starting to bloom!