I love this photo because it shows the nectar so clearly
Hi everyone, I'd kie to introduce myself and my Hoya carnosa
Here is the whole plant. During it's last flowering flush in February, I counted 41 peduncles, but I may have counted some of them more that once as they are all over the plant. Also, hopefully, here is a link to the Hoyas in my DG journal. If any one has any opinions on the ? ones feel free. I have spent all of my free time in the last month or so reading every single post in the 55 pages on this forum. I think I will have to try very hard NOT to become a Hoyaholic as I am already a Cactiholic. a Succulentiholic, a Bulbaholic and a general plant nut.
Ciao, Kaelkitty.
Here is the link, If it doesn't work please let me know. http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/hp/Kaelkitty/ After you click on it you will find the Hoyas in the Succulent Plants Section.
Hello Kaelkitty. Your H. carnosa is lovely. It looks like a very healthy, happy plant.
Yes...good on ya, ... nice plant
Hi Kitty
I am new on this forum and only have one Hoya - looks to be the same variety as yours from your pics.
I thought I may share this with you and any others reading this thread.
I remember as a very young boy my mother having this plant on the "stoep" (South African - verandah) to the right of the front door into the house.
Mom called it the "wax plant" because of the dropplets of nectar that used to accummulate on the blooms.
It had thick green leaves and always fascinated me since the blooms were so few and far between.
At that time we lived in the small town of "George" in the extreme southern part of Africa, near the coast where the climate was of the mild Mediteranean Type.
When my mother passed away some 8 years ago, I took this plant in its original pot back home with me to the eastern coast of Southern Africa, a sub- or semi- tropical region.
There I re-potted it (Probably for the first time in its life).
It had never grown more than 1m high in the 50+ years that I have seen it.
In the last few years still in its "new" pot, it has grown explosively enveloping and climbing to the top of the Leopard Tree under which we had placed the pot with the sickly plant in it, and now has grown to more than 6m high.
When it flowers, which is 60 to 70% of the time, the flowers hang in garlands from the branches of the tree.
Oh how I wish that my mother could have seen this sight - she had cared for and nurured this Hoya for so many years without ever seeing its true potential.
Peter Hutchison
What a great story Peter! Do you have any pictureas of this amazing hoya in its tree? Thanks for sharing and for introducing your self. And, welcome to Dave Garden's Hoya's forum.
If your wonderfully resiliant heirloom hoya hasn't already made your curious about the other hoyas that are out there, participating in this forum certainly will. I think a good number of us start out with Hoya carnosa. Hoya lovers who are true plant lovers and always hunting through plant stores and garden centres will occasionally find other fairly common hoyas, and once that happens (speaking from personal experience) its a fairly easy distance to acquiring 100+ different hoyas..... Welcome to a very healthy addiction that has a massive following.
Christine
Thanks Christine for your response,
Now someone needs to help this silly old man work out how to get the picture on here!!!!
I do have some photo's of my Hoya on PC (although only taken by cell phone camera - so not top quality).
If I can work out how to post them I will.
When I went to school there was no such thing even envisaged - as a computer, and I am totally self taught by trial and ERROR!
Anyway, judging by the posts I have read here and also by your friendly response I think that I have found a place to share my rudimentary gardening questions, some insights and experiences.
We live in a sub-tropical area and are blessed with around the year good weather alternating from extreme heat - (28 to 34 Deg C) coupled with 80%+ humidity and beautiful mild winters with little humidity and average temperature of about 18 to 24 deg C (Not sure what that equates to in Deg F),
We experience mainly spring,summer and autumn (fall) rainfall, but can also have some in winter - All 6 - 8 weeks of it!
I am about to retire and quite honestly terrified that I am going to be boared to tears - so am looking to gardening, woodwork and other mundane activities to keep myself fully occupied.
Cheers to all who read this
Peter
Peter, your pictures have to be either on your computer or on a website. You then click the button below the window where you type your message and click on browse; then you navigate to where your picture is and add it. I've never had mine on a website so I don't know how one would navigate to a website to add a picture. Maybe someone else can help, if your pictures aren't on your computer.
Christine