Here's h. fungii - one of my favorites - maybe because she blooms for me!
Karen
Blooming August
Wow everyone, I've been enjoying this thread so much, and trying very hard not to be too jealous! August is such a great month for hoya flowers. Despite the majority of my hoyas still sulking from my move at the end of May, there's still a few that just require enough water, fertilizer and light. Like H. multiflora, which has been in constant bloom since before the move.
Lastly, one of my faves, H lobbii, simply because the colours of the flowers look so vivid together. This one surprised me a couple of weeks ago when I found huge buds on it that only took a few days to open. It was surprising, because have the plant in what I considered to be less than an ideal location as it gets no sun at all, and it sits high enough up in the window that the light isn't even that strong.
Buds abound too, H sp haraku (its first and I'm holding my breath and not touching it, not moving it), H lacunosa 'Tove', H heuscheliana (yellow) is full of buds. But alas, H fraterna continues to bud up and blast on a regular basis.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
Christine
(edited because I forgot one!)
This message was edited Aug 17, 2008 10:38 AM
Woo Hooo!!!! Finally, I have an umbel partially open on H. ciliata. I got this one from Carol in Oct. '05 and have been ~somewhat~ patiently watching it grow... and grow... and grow and yet never bloom.
Five and a half months ago I moved to warmer climes (north central FL) and it took off like gangbusters. Now it has this group opening and one other ripening. I had to get a step ladder to take a pic because it is blooming at the top of a double tomato cage setup.
Also blooming at present is H. carnosa tricolor, H. cv Pink Silver, H. sp IML 1420, H. pubicalyx RHP and budded out is H. cumingiana.
Barb
Here it is full shot...
And I know this isn't a bloom per se, but H. carnosa tricolor leaves are SO colorful and varied. I love it even though it is considered to be common. :)
Barb
I agree with you Barb - H. carnosa KQ is what first got me into hoyas, and it's still a fave of mine (even though it hasn't bloomed yet). The leaf colors (white, pink, half white/half green, etc) are just as beautiful as flowers!
Here's H. kenejiana in bloom (has a greenish tint in this pic, but the flowers are usually more on the yellow side depending on time of day).
And a close-up (with the more "typical" yellow color)..
Bjf, do you have your cilata in full sun all the time?
Gabi, your kenejiana flowers looks a lot more Yellow than mine. Mine are like cream color.
Jan
Hi Jan. Yes, the H. ciliata is in full sun from dawn until maybe 6 or so when the screen room shades it partially. It is in a 16" diameter pot and the roots have grown through the drainage holes down into the soil beneath.
Barb
Wow! I guess I'll slowly push my cilata toward more sunny spot. Yours is beautiful!
Jan
Gabro....the H. kenejiana is a beauty. Very nice pictures.
Thanks, Jan. I was beginning to think I couldn't make it happy enough to bloom, then voila! Here is a pic of most of it... sorry for all the background clutter. It is the only place I could get it to be in full sun yet out of the wind - and it is top-heavy! It blew over twice before I anchored it with a wrought iron, in-ground plant stand thingy on one side and the bbq grill on the other. Carol said these guys like to climb to bloom and she was totally right!!
I only gave it a week to transition from partial shade in north Alabama to full blistering FL sun and it didn't skip a beat. And don't let it get dry, either.
Barb
P.S. Gabi, your H. kenejiana is gorgeous!
Here is what is left of my kerria's bloom.
Eriostemmas LOVE as much sun as you can give them....even here!!!
When you say 'as much sun as you can give them' Carol, do you mean full sun, no shade? I always err on the side of caution here and have everything under shade cloth. I was looking at Marks photos of your grounds..'drool'... and they obviously shoot up the trees into the sun. If theyre under glass, they burn, but Im presuming outside all year,( rightly or wrongly ? ) a lot of Hoyas can take a little sun?
I think I read in another thread somewhere that you said you were shocked to see some of the Hoyas youve seen in the wild? If that's right, do you mean the way they naturally grow...yellowing, too much sun, and not generally looking like the pampered specimens we grow in horticulture..but that they were thriving like that?
Dominic
Nice shot of kenejiana, Gabi. New macro lens?
Thanks Mark. Nope, no new lens. It's just a regular Sony Cybershot digital camera (it cost me under 300 bucks). It's a Carl Zeiss lens with 10X optical zoom, 8.1 megapixels. I really love the camera - nothing special, but it does a good job for a rookie photographer like myself!
Gabi
I'm looking for a new travel camera myself, I'll take a look at the Cybershot. Anything about it you don't like? There was a new Canon Powershot G9 I was looking at, but it is 12 megapixels! Who needs that many pixels? It takes long enough to download and process 8 mp on my Canon Rebel.
This is H. aff. multiflora from Penang Island, just opening up this morning.
Neat flower ! Will it reflex all the way back, or does it stay this way ?
How cool is that! Nice pic, Mark.
Very Star Wars, those flowers coming at you........ Why do you need a new camera Mark...thats a great pic, as is Gabi's?
Mark, that is a STUNNING pic! The camera I have is a great travel camera. Honestly, there are nothing that I dislike about it.
My father used to give me his "throw-away" cameras (35mm, before he started using digital), and even though the lenses were phenomenal, I just didn't want to take the time to learn about the cameras. Anyway, my point is that I did NOT inherit his photography skills! He is not a professional photographer, but it's a major hobby of his (enough to have a closetfull of the biggest lenses they make) - he has one photo in Shutterfly and one in an African Safari photo book. I mean seriously, the only trips he ever takes are photo trips with photo groups - but it's cool..he goes to amazing places, and I get the benefit of getting prints of his wildlife photos (he prints on canvas mostly..has anyone tried that with hoya blooms? I bet it would look amazing).
Gabi
Gabi, I just loved the pictures you were taking with your new camera, that I went and bought one. I have an old Minolta 35m camera with all sorts of lens just sitting in the camera bag, in the closet. I never had the patience to learn how to use it. Just give me a good point and shoot. This Sony fills the bill. One of these days I'll learn how use all the manual settings. I'm very happy with this camera. I was using a Canon Powershot A560, nice camera, but the Sony takes excellent close-ups.
Thanks, Barb, Paula & Dominic.
The flowers should reflex to look like a shooting star eventually, but they are staying flat for a surprisingly long time. This morning when I woke up they were open and looked like this, but I expected when I got home they would have reflexed. Nope, still the same.
Dominic, I want a travel camera. The one I used for the aff. multiflora (now I hear it is actually closer to H. javanica- does that sound familiar to anyone else?) is my Canon Rebel, which does not leave the house! I'm sure I'd lose it or drop it if I did.
You know, my old Optio, which was also a hand-me-down from my father-in-law, took great shots. A lot of my best pictures were taken on it, and it was several generations old. It finally blew a fuse or something, else I'd still be using that for quick shots and vacations.
I'm glad you like the camera, Ima.
I agree, the simple point and shoot cameras are more my style. It's hard enough to figure out all the manual settings on those, that I couldn't imagine using a more professional camera!
Hopefully you'll show us some more of your pics :)
Gabi
I have hit the jackpot with yellow flowas this year...here is IML1391
Blessings,
Awanda
This one is labled just "h. pubicalyx"
Could this "Red Buttons" have a wrong label on it?
AND... look what I found on my h. fungii today.
No flower on this one but still... yikes!
Better the shed skin than the snake, me thinks!
I got an unseen Bee up my nose once sniffing a flower...I sure as hell wouldnt want to get a Snake up there.!!
Dominic
Mark, I took this one this morning with an Optio S7. Its about as close as I could get with the Macro lens it has
LOL Patricia! I believe your tricolor yearns to be at the height of fashion. Too bad it doesn't have some feet for a pair of snakeskin boots. ;)
Barb
Funny prop & bjf! it has to be a Black snake. I've seen one around here a couple of times this summer. I'm just surprised the plant was strong enough to hold him/her.
Dominic...very nice pic.
Oh, and thanks to you, Barb, and Ric for the compliments of my photo...sorry I missed that.
Gabi
Amazing, what good results you can get from relatively inexpensive cameras these days. I may opt for another Optio, I liked the last one so much.