Wow, I love the iridescence in the center of that pauciflora flower. Beautiful.
Hills, your retusa looks great! Have to add that one to my want list....along with the pauciflora!!!
Jen
October blooms
My retusa came from epric-sticting, a conglomerate who work in the Netherlands collecting mostly epis but also have quite a few hoyas. The plants seem a bit expensive, but are huge - I think I got that one for probably about the equivalent of $30 including postage. It sat for ages doing nothing - I had to change the soil for something that would suit my colder, house- not greenhouse - conditions, and it seems to have come on really well this year.
I fed it irregularly over the summer with the beer fertilizer, then moved to my new house in August (when I stopped feeding!). I would say the sun actually shines maybe 1 out of four days at the moment (mostly it's grey) and it sits next to the window (posted http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4072607) where it seems to get maybe 50% of the dappled sunlight through the day. When it's grey I guess it gets some ambient light from outside. I keep them all at "liveable" temperature - average of 60F I guess, as it's cold here now.
Hills,
Thanks for that detailed post of the conditions for keeping your H. retusa. That is incredibly helpful. I particularly like it, because your conditions mimic the kind of conditions I can easily provide.
Doug
Just under the wire for October, my nummalroides is putting on a show!
Karen
What a nice soft visual picture of your plant. You need to enter that in the photography contest.
another shot of H.patella but fully open this time.
this is a Chilean bell flower. The flowers last a very long time (up to 2 weeks) on the vine and have the same thick,waxy texture to them as hoya flowers do.
My day is never complete until I have checked for new hoya blooms. Thank you everyone!
That Chilean bell flowers is so fine!!
I love your pic too, Karen. And Christina, that retusa bloom is just heavenly!
Gabi
Gessie,the bell flowers come in other colors as well. I have had this plant for close to 2 years now and won it on ebay. It took almost a year for it to bloom the first time.
I am trying right now to propagate a piece of the vine but from what i've read about it you stand a better chance of rooting a steel pipe than you do of rooting this plant! It supposedly is an extremely difficult plant to root from cuttings.
The flowers are probably 4 inches long and don't open up any more than what you see in the picture. They are freckled with white splotches and I cant detect any fragrance to the blooms,but they could be one of those flowers that release their perfume only at night and I don't go out to the gh after dark.
Other bloom colors include shades of red,pink and white.And they are VERY expensive when and if you ever find one for sale. If my mind serves me right I believe I paid close to $40 for this plant when I got it and it wasn't the tallest tree in the forest when it arrived!!!
dmichael
Well, she is a beauty and I didn't doubt for a second that someone paid for that plant with their 'first child'! (LOL)
I remember seeing your post with the Chilean Bell Flower last year, and put it in my "Things to get some day" file. It is a beauty. I had no idea they were hard to propagate and expensive though..(guess it will be awhile..ha ha).
Karen...your nummalroides is lovely. Everyone elses it seems is blooming, but I don't know what is wrong with mine. Neither of my big ones have a single bloom at all this year. I had one kept in the house & the other out on the olive tree. Each got just a tad of afternoon sun so I know it is not a "light thing". I am stumped on figuring out what is up with them.
Marcy
Marcy, I VERY carefully removed a sucker with a piece of the rhizome intact, from the base of the bell flower vine and am trying to get some roots on it. This will be my first attempt at propagating it so we'll see what happens. It's bloomed off and on all spring and summer but has not made any seed pods as of yet.
I may try and take some cuttings and try to get new starts that way. I have no personal experience with rooting this plant but just from what i've read online about it it sounds to be very difficult to get new plants from seeds or cuttings.
I'm a little late, but H. subquintuplinervis flowered for us in October.
Roy
This is a basket of 8 different hoyas in it. I will show you both sides. The fragrance of the blooms knocked my socks off driving home today with it in my front seat.
Here is the other side hanging in the nursery.
Here is a close up of the basket in my front seat.
here is a basket hanging out of the back of my car!
I had to start over packing.....and you can't see my other baskets which are all in bloom. One you can't see is cinnamon in full bloom.
Just throwing in a pic of some of the 4" pots I got on the same trip this week. I still know nothing but keep promising to start learning soon.
What a haul!!! You did good my friend. Where did you go shopping? Looks like you hit the Hoya jackpot!!!
Jeri
Lucky you!!!to have some place close that has things like that! Beautiful plants. Especially like the purplish leaf ones! I am having to pout just a little...But very happy for you!
OK friends..............I got home this afternoon after a 4 day jaunt of plant shopping with a friend.............we are both so tired we are stupid!
I will try to find all my hoya pics. Now, please know that i won't know the names of them.
All I know about this one is she blooms red.
She called this one Cinnamon hoya but I didn't get this one. I got a big hanging basket in total bloom.
I got this one........they were only marked 18.95 but Green Gate Nursery in Seguin sold the hanging baskets to me for 14.00 each. She said it was because I got so many plants.
My friend got this variegated hindu rope. I already have one.
That was sure nice of her! What a steal. The cinnamon one is on my 'I want' list.
I got these three also.
I have the var. rope too and the green one. What was that red-purple strap leaved basket beside it? Some kind of Epi.?
Here is part of my 'loot'..........at the check out stand. I found these really neat square shallow baskets for rex and other begonias......they are great
Wow Gail----you done good!!!
I don't know how to read a post and get back where I am so forgive me!!!!!!
Check this out this morning as i loaded my car from my daughter's house.
Now i will show you the back of the car (LOL)
Weird! That store looks almost like where I work! Guess deep down all nurseries are the same?! LOL Really like the curly one. That's an Epi I've always wanted.
I also found a giant night blooming (I can't spell cyreus)
She also had all colors of day blooming kind, but I already had to pack the car after this picture and start all over as i couldn't get it all in.
I am through hogging the thread..........
LOL! That's a packed vehicle! DO I see another hobby in there? Crafts maybe? OOo you got it bad!
Not hogging! Letting others share in the fun! The next best thing to being there HA
Ok, so I've been to Map Quest and if I start out driving for Seguin, Texas in the morning I will make it there by Monday if I stop and sleep some!!!! LOL Here is what it told me from my house.....
Total Est. Time: 28 hours, 28 minutes Total Est. Distance: 1922.01 miles
I wish it was closer! Gail you did great!!! Thanks for sharing the pictures, so fun to see them all!! Awesome Hoyas!!!
~Brenda
Brenda,
You are soooooooo funny! It is just 2000 miles (each way?)
Ok Gail .... Now see what you've started???
I had to do the Map Quest thing too! Here's the info for my trip:
Total Est. Time 16 hours, 55 minutes Total Est. Distance: 1125.82 miles
hee hee ... Brenda - I can get there before you! LOL