That's sort of funny, because mine has been outside all summer and has been in the heart of the unending rain we had this summer (something like 60 straight days or something like that). It is lush and full and happy, no blooms yet though.
:) Kim
August Blooms
I just read this thread.................feel another addiction coming soon..................no wonder Bhavanna34 you wanted those other hoyas that i took pictures of...................these are beautiful..........................will have to get out to that nursery before the summer is over and see if she will sell me a basket of each cultivar..................
Here's a shot I got of it at the show, after I'd carefully arranged it to show that the poor plant had actually got flowers (it was a "Flowering Pot Plant" competition). By the time I came to collect it, it had ants crawling all over it - I think the sneaky beggars must have found the nectar on the flowers and told all their friends! I'll try and get another shot of it in its current location, happily hanging off the curtain rail, this weekend if I can.
When I got this plant late last year, it was in flower, but a complete mess (I think the postmen threw it around in its box or something :( ) and I worried about it for months, I didn't think it was very happy as it wasn't growing. But this summer it seems to have taken off - spent a lovely month at my parent's home where it was light and very warm - and is now much happier. Even got a couple of new vines, as well as quite a few flowers! My mother didn't believe that it was a hoya until I showed her the flowers!
Wow!
It's beautiful. Such a delicate looking plant.
I am truly thrilled with retusa. This is obviously not blooming, as I just received it on Wed. from David, but it did so well in the water, that I moved it into mix to continue rooting. Once I see nice root bumps forming, on they go. Just that many fewer rolling rock bottles lying around that way.
I requested this one on a whim, and I must say, along with subcalva, and myrmecopa, it is definitely one of my favorites!
Sara
Sara ... repeat after me ... oink
(LOL)
Ann
Ummmm Ann, dear, dear Ann.........My hoya is 6 inches, your hoya (pick one, just any one) is about 30 feet. Repeat after me "bigger OINK OINK OINK OINK"
S
Sorry Ann - I have to agree with Sara - YOU are the Queen of Oink.....for now...............! LOL
Karen
Snicker, but it is so nice to have friends in the same boat (or, trough, as the case may be). Lets just hold hooves bask in the glory that is our obsession!
Snickering and oinking ...
Ann
Ok, I'm an idiot....I've had this camera only a year.....and just figured out that it has a "macro" setting. Geesh. Oh well, I am blonde and I am aging.....deadly combination!
Here's a clearer picture of h. motoeski - still blooming it's little heart out!
Karen
So cool, Karen!!
Thanks, Ann!
Here's a clearer picture of h. fungii - still bloomin' it's little heart out!
Karen don't feel bad on the camera thingy, Lamom had to show me and I'm not blonde but definately aging!
Jeri
Beautiful hoya's and photo's everyone. Still very jealous over H. fungii :( I have resorted to sticking mine in bright light and water it every other day. This hoya is being just down right stubborn..
Two umbels right next to each other, caudata.
And while I'm at it... juannguoiana.
And perhaps also hellwigiana.
Lovely pictures Christina, as always. I bough H. juanngoiana from David Liddle last year on your recommendation. Really nice leaves, and I'm looking forward to smelling the blossoms.
Christina...I MISS YOU!!!!!
Don't you love that bright pink on the corollas of joancoaina??? Mine JUST bloomed too!!
Carol
Beautiful photos Christina! Like Mark I ordered an H. juanngoiana from David Liddle. I also ordered one from Ted Green. The one from Liddle is sort of just sitting, but the one from Ted is growing like mad. Hopefully one of these will give me some blooms soon so that I don't have to sit here seething with jealousy at your beautiful blooms (LOL).
Ann
Beautiful blooms and pictures, Christina!
Karen
p.s. Christina, what are the two clones of caudata called?
Thanks for your comments!
Mark: I have no idea... Way back, when I was new to hoyas I bought a cutting of caudata and soon after I won a bigger plant at a Christmas Hoya meeting and decided to pot them together... Well, it turned out to be one white and one yellow!
Christina
H. multiflora/javanica - this plant is loaded with flowers!
Karen
My Multiflora variegata blooms almost constantly.
Tami
Held two umbels next to each other today and here's the result of carnosa and motoskei.
/Christina
Well, I'm new to hoyas and I've been looking at this plant forever in a local Agway, but it was on sale today. The clincher was, IT WAS IN BLOOM! Of course no one had noticed so I showed a bunch of folks as I was checking out. It's an Angel plant (often incorrect labelling) so I'm curious if the variegated foliage is typical of h. lacunosa.
Flowers.
Beautiful blooms everyone. I love the variegated foliage on your lacunosa boojum.
My noid finally bloomed successfully. It seems like once this one gets started there's no stopping it. It has 4 more peduncles forming on the new vines. So.....is it H. diptera? I've been comparing it with pictures and it looks like it to me.
Sandy
That is a nice photo, diptera or whatever it is!
Boojum, you found the infamous "variegated" lacunosa that everyone has been looking for everywhere. It isn't really variegated by the true definition of the word, but has alot more speckling/silvering on the leaves than most lacunosa. Very nice plant, be careful with the water, I water those Angel plants very lightly.
I stopped at HD this week, same old kentiana and nummularioides....though they did have several carnosa tricolors in 6 inch pots with the 2 u-shaped interlocking bamboo trellises. They looked as if they had been in the store too long, soaking wet, kind of damp and musty looking, like they weren't getting any fresh air, and possible early mealy signs. Kind of sad, I wish I could have saved a few.
Oh, so it's special?? Oh course it is waterlogged. I hope it will dry out before it rots!!
Oh Sandy that is beautiful. I checked on mine the other day, a few spurs, but no blooming in site. What a pretty little thing and a beautiful yellow. How does it smell?
I don't know about "special", but definately alot of people want it!!Keep it outside for now if you have a semi shady spot, the warm air will help it dry out alot faster. Then, just water enough to wet the top few inches of soil, try not to soak the whole pot...I have found this is the best way for me to keep those EA plants alive until they establish themselves with alot of roots.
That H. lacunosa is a stunner!!! But I do find it not as hardy as the other ones...difficult to propagate....
Nice flower, Sandy...
Tami it has a nice light scent. It seems a bit like citrus but I don't have the best sense of smell so I'm not sure. I had to put my nose right up to it to detect the scent so it's definitely one I can live with. I'm not crazy about the carnosas. It is a pretty one and a nice change from all my usual pink flowers.
So is it diptera Carol?
Sandy
Sandy....I will check if it is H. diptera or H. vanuatuensis....
Here are the two colors of H. patella. The flowers last a LONG time and are about 1" across.... When they first open, the 'white' is really a light pink...then it darkens.
Carol....is that one of the eriostemma group? Is it a touchy plant to raise?
Marcy
Not an eriostemma, but I'm finding mine to be very slow to grow, and it drops leaves. One change I made was to give it a bit of full on sun at the end of the day. It seems stabler now, but still isn't growing. Hopefully it'll perk up more in the spring. Patience, thy name is hoya grower...lol...
Christine
I'm off from work today and had to go out and run some errands. First stop was at Sma's club for gas,second stop was next door at Lowes to see if they had any new hoyas then to wal-mart. Our local wal-marts really suck as far as having a nice variety of plants to choose from.
Needed cat food so it was off to pet smart,if I come home with nothing for the cats then I may as well not even come home!! Gizmo thinks he should have something everytime I return home so he checks every bag upon my entering the house.
After leaving pet smart my next stop was home but I had to pass one more Lowes before getting home so I thought to myself stop and see if they have any new hoyas ( they usually dont) as the first store didnt. Guess what I found!!!! An 8" basket full of the speckled lacunosa. I'll try and get a pic posted later for everyone to see,right now I need to go out an mow grass which I am really not looking forward to as it is suppose to be 100F here today!.
dmichael