This tree outside the back lanai is full of hoyas and dischidia. This is where the H. coriacea is growing in the upper canopy...and lower down, growing UP are:
H. wayettii, H. lacunosa, H. diptera, H. acuta, H. carnosa, H. macgillivrayi, D. ruscifolia, D ovata, D. bengalensis....and more. I love my little tree fairy.
A couple of clones of D. ovata I stuck in a Monkeypod tree. They like to grow on the underside of the limbs to get out of the sun!!!
Looking up at H. coronaria...hanging down from a tree outside the back...
Carol, how wonderful it is to let your hoyas & dischidias grow on your trees. The site is breath takingy beautiful. Drooling....
Jan
Gorgeous, Carol. What is the hoya slightly left of the Croton in the first picture? It may be in a green pot, can't really tell.
Shirley
Shirley...that's H. pottsii. It never blooms because it gets too much water, but the leaves are terrific. The wayettii is growing from a pot lower leftish and has vines all the way UP...upper right. I am going to put more hoyas in there soon. Also growing up in the tree are H. brevialata, H. glabra, H. caudata, H. limoniaca, H. pusilla....
How cool! All those different hoyas & dischidias growing on one tree! Oooh, I love the looks of that red foliage on potsii too! Very pretty!
Great pictures Carol I also collect Faries. Can I use the picture with the fairy as a background for my computer?
Great photos, Carol. I wish I had a fairy tree for my hoya. If not a fairy tree, any tree would do. I have a few citrus trees, but not big enough for my hoya. I have a few in the lychee tree, but I don't think they get enough light. I'll have to clear out some branches. The orchids under the tree love it though.
If you feel inspired over the winter....or have some free time (what is that?)...interesting shapes can be made with chicken wire stuffed with spagnum moss... Some botanical gardens make huge trees out of it usually with pvc pipe as the support and the chickenwire/moss covers the pipe.
Yes, Betty...be my guest using the photo. Anyone can use my photos...and credit would be appreciated but I won't throw you in jail if you don't. LOL
Great pics Carol. You really do live in paradise!
Gabi
I DO!! And you can just ask the mosquitos!!! No, really, live everyday in awe!
LOL regarding the mosquitoes! We have those here in Florida too ... and unfortunately Spiders, Snakes, Crocodiles, Iguanas, Monitor Lizards and Pythons!
... i'm ready to retire someplace else.
One person's pets, another's poison!
Drives me crazy that some folks think it's cool to buy "little" snakes or lizards to have for a pet, and then when those little snakes and lizards grow up and get huge and their owners release them in the environment to fend for themselves, which is very unfortunate because they end up eating the native plants and animals as well as people's small pets!
Hey...they want to do it here, too. And Ag. and Forestry has the devil of a time keeping tabs on them!!! I don't believe snakes are allowed on the islands even as pets!!!!
Thanks Carol,
I would be glad to give you the creidt alway's try to.
