Woo Hoo ... just received the latest issue of Stemma! Amazing! Each issue gets better and better! I am printing it out right now so I can sit down with a cup of tea later on and indulge in reading the entire issue!
Thanks so much to everyone involved in this really great publication!
Lin
Stemma!
Wow! Mark, Antone, Bobby and Carol - congratulations on another issue well done!
I must say each issue gets better and better. Thanks guys, for another great one!!! ^_^
I agree! Here is your future Hoya book - a couple more years of this kind of quality, and bind them together and voila - the Hoya book, we've all been looking for!
Doug
Ditto ... what Doug just said!
I'm at work right now but I just printed out my first ever issue of Stemma. I can't believe how much info is there- it's great! Now I have to try to work with it sitting here waiting for me lol. I'm sure I'll have to sneak in some reading. ;) Thanks so much for everyones hard work putting it together!
Oh, and is there any way that anyone could email me even a few back issues? I would be so grateful! I can give you my email address...
Thanks,
Becky ^_^
Becky...there will be back issues posted...I think Mark put the link in Stemma..... Mine are throughout my Inbox and I need to make a file to store them.... They are too precious to lose!!!
I did see that earlier on my break- of course I had to do some reading. :) I'm going to check those out- thanks! BTW- your article in there was great- you're so fortunate to be able to travel to Borneo and see all of those beautiful hoyas growing in their natural habitats. Very cool! ^_^
YES - and after surgery I will be able to RUN across that #$%!! hanging bridge!!!!
LOL Carol! That did look VERY scary.
I could never trek Nepal!!!! Bob tells of a tourist who refused to go on a hanging bridge...one plank of wood wide and rope rails over a gorge a gazillion feet down. The Sherpa (about 4' tall) threw her over his shoulder and carried her kicking and screaming. That would be me!!!
Mark - finally got a chance to sit down and read (and drool over) STEMMA. The issues continue to be amazing. I love the departure of this issue to cover travels by those lucky enough (read those I am jealous of) to see hoya in the wild. Thanks for another great issue! And Carol - CAN'T BELIEVE you were silly enough to cross that bridge!!!!
Karen
Thanks everyone!
The travel issue was really fun to do. I'm jealous of the three author too- I've seen Hoya in Hawaii growing in the ground and on trees, but have not (yet!) seen one in its natural habitat myself. Someday.
Isn't Hoya imperialis impressive? Aside from the three different colored clones Carol found, there is a variety that has pink and yellow flowers (the Palawan form) and a clone ('Alba') that Ted Green found on a previous trip that has white flowers very slightly tinged green.
What is Stemma? I'm fairly new to this forum so excuse my ignorance.
I JUST now found time to read Stemma...nice issue, Mark! I love the photos of hoyas in situ - it also helps me get an idea of how to care for the different types. Love that you have international correspondents in such exotic places. Kinda makes it all a bit romantic, knowing the H. erythrostemma on my shelf here in San Francisco comes from a verdant jungle.
Julia
Julia...you are so right!!! I was a snob about H. diversifolia (such a common horsey plant) until I brought back totally dried out vines from Philippines and find them growing lush and green. Hey...GORGEOUS!!! and totally 4wheel drive hoyas!!!!!