ROFLBO! That is too cute!
.... and I love your "Fun Guy" too! Beautiful bloom!
September Blooms
**grin**
My australis 'Lisa' is blooming for the first time. Same flowers as the "regular" australis, but still nice.
Grin also on the "fun guy"!!
Christina - your photography skills continue to amaze me! Beautiful!
This thread is just full of awesome blooms, everyone!
Karen
H. ishnopus (sp?) I love yellow hoyas - they make me happy!
This nummularioides has been in bloom about 2 weeks now, and with the buds still on it in all different stages, I think it will continue to bloom through October. This is the first time with this many flowers, and the picture doesn't do it justice....actually, my digital camera IS a good camera, so maybe the problem is the photographer!!
Thanks Karen!
Here's 'Lisa' from yesterday. A few more flowers open...
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WOW Christina....I notice the corollas on the Lisa flower are curving back along the edges. I have not noticed that happening on any other australis flowers. Do you find them different that way, or am I imagining things again? Ha. Also...do they smell the same?
My big australis that hung on the palm tree frond (a picture of it is on the back cover of the new World of Hoyas book) is budding up big time this year again, but not blooming yet. I had to move it this fall as the last frond came off that was low enough to move it up to, so it got moved to the olive tree. Will get pics as soon as it opens a bunch of those tons of blooms.
Marcy
Marcy, I think my other australis also curves back from time to time. A difference that I have noticed is that the flowers on 'Lisa' are more towards purple under the corona than the "normal" pink. And yes, they smell exactly the same!
/Christina
Yay, I love australis season. mine is starting to bud as well. My calycina and albiflora are pretty big now, and I think are supposed to be fall bloomers as well? Crossed fingers!
Beautiful blooms everyone !!! I love it when the weather cools off and the hoya's start to bloom again. My GH smells like a florist shop :)
I love the nummularioides, Bhavana34. Nice job. Mine has been the same puny size for the past 3 years, but I just noticed it's covered in new growth points (leaves and vines, not flowers, from what I've seen). Maybe in another 20 years it'll be the size of your beauty.
My australis and carnosa motoskei are starting to bud up as well....so fun to come home each day and check the progress.
Julia
Wow! I have had the most fun taking a break and reading this posts. Great photos and wonderful blooms! I am a newbie to hoyas and now have a list of more I want. I got a start of a H. multiflora this spring and it bloomed not long afterward. Now it is forming more blooms! I am so excited. Is the stem that the bloom is forming on the penduncle mentioned in some of the posts?
It don't look like much but I just had to post this because for once I managed to get a close up flower picture that was not completely blurred. What is it with me? I take pics of the flowers and everything BUT the flowers comes out crisp and clear. I have a decent digital camera, a Canon PowerShot, but if I get a good picture, it is usually an accident! For those of you who get such great closeups, I could use some tips.
Anyway, this is a mystery hoya, came labeled as merrillii, which you can tell by the flowers that it obviously isn't.....
When the flowers opened they were pink but after the first day faded to white. They smell VERY strong, you can detect the scent of these three little flowers across a very large room. Reminds me of hyacinths.
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You need to set your camera where it will focus on the closeup. I am not familiar with your camera. But if it is an autofocus, set it on macro. Look in your guide book that came with the camera and I bet there is a setting for closeups! Also some cameras have lenses that you cannot get too close. Your book should tell you something like "3 inches or 6 inches" or whatever that lens will work with. Once you know how close you can get the camera, it will help you a lot. Maybe someone with that camera can tell you the exact setting. My macro setting has a little flower that shows when it is set.
Cactuspatch is yours a Sony? How close can you get with a Sony?
TIA!!!
Jeri
Nope, mine is a Fugi and I can get about 2 or 3 inches from the flower. It all depends on the lense in the camera. By that I mean different models of Fugi's have different lenses. That is why I suggested looking in the camera guidebook because it gives specifics on that camera. Or look it up online. Did you guys know you can find lots of manuals online? I love that cause then if I misplace mine I just look online! Sorry Tami-did not mean to hijack the thread!
Cactuspatch, I have been practicing - though my guidebook ( when I finally had time to spend 2 hours looking for the thing ) wasn't much help though...
Jen, whatever the mystery hoya is that you bought, it sure is pretty!! Your photos are looking really good too. Maybe I should find my instruction book for my camera too. HA - it might take me 2 hours just to find where I stashed it. Really though, who needs instructions?
I was amazed at all of the things that my cell phone could do when I finally got around to reading that manual!
S
Ann, you asked about my atrium and I finally took some pictures this morning, it doubles as the front foyer and looks pretty dark because it is still early. The problem with the room is that for one thing, I do not own the house and can't put up hooks on the pine paneling, because it could not be easily repaired when I move. And also, the only places to put hooks would be right in front of the slider doors on the left and right sides of the room, and plants hanging there would block out the little bit of light that I get in an already very dark house. ( i really believe the original builder was a vampire )
However - It is torture having such a great room - the few hoyas I have kept in here have done great.....so I moved a few of the floor plants out of the room and am brainstorming on what I can do ( placing my precious plants on benches or tables on the floors is out of the question - too much traffic going thru here, the majority of it being kids between the ages of one and five ) but I am working on it, believe me! First picture is the windows in the front (also the front door) and you can see the skylights on the roof.
Sara, my cell phone takes good pictures too - though most of them are of the inside of my purse.
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here is a shot taken standing in the open front door - kitchen is thru glass sliders to the right, strait ahead is obviously the interior door.
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same view, a little better though
ceiling/skylights
left side, living room sliders. You can see the walls in some of the pictures, that wood paneling.
and here is inside looking out thru the front door, sorry the pictures are so dark, I should have waited and took them later in the day....
So that is it, brightest spot in the house - pretty exciting, isn't it? In the first picture you can see the roof overhang over the front door, and that overhang goes around the entire perimeter of the house, so the only time any of the windows get any direct sun is either early am or late afternoon. Once the sun is high in the sky, every single window is thrown into shade. And because of the trees, the shade is even deeper.
You live in the pine barrens, yes?
yes I do, right on the edge....you know the area?
I grew up near New Brunswick and had a BF from the Pine Barrens. I remember visiting someone with him in Medford Lakes. Lots of trees. Looks a lot like areas of Florida.
Yes, at times in Florida I would think it looked just like home...it is all the sandy soil and scrubby pines. This was all ocean at one time, which is why not much grows in the sand/soil except for the pines. It has its charm though, is specially Medford Lakes with all the log cabins, my brother lives there.
Trees are great, but not when you want sun in your house!
I have always lived with less sun than I wanted till I moved here to an old dairy farm. Lots of sun here. It changed my gardening and houseplants completely.