Cv Noelle is another faithful bloomer here...
April Blooms
...and one more of cv. Noelle.
Then finally we have fuzzy cute diversifolia...
You have incredible blooms Christina, thanks for sharing !!
< wiping off the drool now....>
Just wonderful!!
Those are amazing photos, Christina; thanks for sharing! villaluna
Christina, the 'Noelle' looks really beautiful. Do you have any photos of the leaves?
cv. Noelle is named after my niece - my sister (cv) Joy's daughter. Your flowers are alot yellower than mine, Christina!!!
Very pretty!!!
Carol
Wow, love the cv. Noelle - Carol, did you engineer that cross? and cv. Joy? How easy/hard was it? I'd love to hear the back story!
Julia
Another of cv. Mathilde, where you can see how the blooms start green, then fade to pink:
Here is a pink silver, a first for me!
...and this one, I believe, is Royal Hawaiian Purple. I have H. motoskei, and pubicalyx pink silver and RHP all in the same pot, and they're putting on quite a show:
My Kerrii x Obovata has finally bloomed!
Blessings,
Awanda
Julia...looks too pink, to me, to be RHP...which looks like Red Buttons. That could be 'bright one'..or 'Reva' ....or....
No...I didn't make the cross of cv. Noelle. it was done by Michael Miyashiro years ago. I love it tho...and the leaves are really neat!!!
Carol, thanks for the correction. I recall ordering a "bright one" off eBay several years ago...I'll go tag it now. Nice that Michael Miyashiro named cuttings after your family...I always thought cv. Noelle was for you.
Awanda, that bloom looks just like obvata to me....maybe whiter?
Julie I have a hoya labeled as Bright One that is almost ready to bloom, I'll post a picture of mine so we can compare.
Blessings,
Awanda
Julia this cross seems to take on more of the obovata flowa than the kerrii.
Blessings,
Awanda
Thanks, Awanda. I'd appreciate it. I just found a great thread her on DG where Marcy took photos comparing several varieties of pubicalyx:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/625436/
Here are the leaves (sorry for blurry shot):
I agree with Marcy's observation that the leaves are more rounded and carnosa-like that the narrow leaves common with other pubicalyx.
Julia
Julia..MM did the cross, but it was never given a name. It has, actually, a different colored flower in Europe and is called H. sp. Metallica. I liked it a lot and published the cultivar names about 4 or 5 years ago....
Bright One is one of my favorite!!!!
I have just entertained myself for over 30 minutes on this one thread. What a joy to see so many wonderful hoya blooms!
Thanks
I probably won't have blooms for a few years LOL but I'd like to show you all this one I really love. it is a year old cutting of H. Kentiana, "wayetti" and I just love the chocolate edges on the leaves.
3G , here is a photo of your hoya blooming up in the tree off our porch where my computer is.... I think I have 15 hoyas in that tree!!!!
And right next to it...on another tree...is H. archboldiana
It has pretty flowers too, i can't wait!!
and after the flowers come the seeds. This is a H. australis from Kapoho full of growing seedpods. Humph...wonder who she went out with? Mel, do your australis produce seedpods for you?
Sorry for the blurry photos...and the bad light!!!! Here is H. fraterna blooming outside
And H. vitiensis....
I am in HOYA HEAVEN every time I browse all of y'alls beautiful photo's! Absolutely stunning!
AlohaHoya: I think you must have the most awesome garden surrounding your home! Aaaah ... I can only dream of how wonderful it must be, sitting on the porch, working on the computer, and looking at trees with hoyas actually scrambling up them! Something most of just dream about.
Lovely, Lovely photo's!
The variegated H. kerrii - 3 umbels on this one!!!!
Yes...I am a very lucky woman!!!!
I agree with Lin- how nice to look out and see hoyas climbing up a tree...
I want a variegated Kerrii!!!
You are indeed! I feel my life has been blessed in so many ways, but oh what a wonderful blessing it would be to live in paradise!
Gessiegail sent me a cutting of variegated H. kerri a few months ago but it died. The green kerri rooted but the variegated one didn't make it. I'm still a novice here, learning about rooting these plants.
H. kerrii likes to grow (and root) on the dry side.
Thanks for that tip AlohaHoya! That could be why the variegated one didn't survive ... it was on my deck and in an area where it got wet when I watered everything with the hose. The green kerri has been inside the house. I will remember that the kerri likes drier conditions.
nice, Carol. Do you have any hoyas that are true epiphytes - i.e. no roots in pots/the ground, just growing on the trees?
Julia
Hmmmm. Not attached to anything ... maybe stuck in a wad of moss...
H. compacta
H. davidcummingii
H. bilobata
H. carnosa
H. anulata
H. lacunosa
H. curtisii
H. caudata
H. limoniaca
H. pusilla
H. pottsii (3 or 5)
and 5 or 6 dischidia.
A lot of them have been in the same small pot for so many years....I could take the pot away and it would make no difference. Sometimes when i have a plant that is stubborn in the gh, I just stick it on a tree and.........away it goes.....
Edited to say that I will take some more photos of the fraterna and see if I can get a 'true' picture of the color.
This message was edited Apr 20, 2008 7:35 AM
Carol, that fraterna IS really pale. My one or two blooms two years ago were a sort of dusty dark gold. It is really a different Hoya.