This plant is going a bit crazy this season, LOL
Nummularioides in bloom...
Holy cow! What a huge plant that is!! It is growing up... down... or every which way??? Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!!! mine used to be full & pretty but is in a sad shape now after the water damage from storm. : (
It's beautiful ... looks so healthy and happy growing there.
I have just one word for this and it's WOW! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Its pictures like that of H nummularioides that keep me tending my pathetic little plant that has hardly moved for 2 years.:))..one day.....one day
Dominic
Thank you! I let my hoyas grow "with abandon" for lack of a better word. I don't even try any more to keep them contained in any way. I can do that because I have the space in an enclosed environment, I guess. I am waiting for some of my 'big guns' (Archboldiana, Macgillravyii etc) to put on a show.
WOW - what a gorgeous plant!!
That is one Beautiful nummularioides!
What is your secret for keeping that one alive? Is it in a greenhouse? I had a large basket a year ago and it was really pretty for awhile and then went down hill fast. I have a couple of cuttings I was able to save that are rooted and growing in a jar of water but the remainder of the plant collapsed and died. It was one of my favorites too with the soft fuzzy leaves and the wonderfully fragrant little blooms!
Great growing! Hope you will share photo's of your other hoyas.
I do grow all the hoyas in the greenhouse. My secret is, I don't listen to anyone else about how to grow them, and I don't fret over them. I don't mean that like it sounds...like I know everything about hoya culture, because, well, that's not true at all. But I don't "underpot" to keep my hoyas "rootbound" (many are planted in the ground and climb up the wall from ground level) and I don't "keep them dry"...they get watered pretty much daily in summer and every other day in winter. I also don't use "special fertilizer" (like Eleanors), I hit mine with full strength 20-20-20 and 10-50-10 every few weeks during the growing season, and they have Nutricote in pots or around the base if they are planted in-ground for constant feeding. They also get a micronutrient spray a couple times a year when I do my palms.
When they climb, they develop a lot of aerial roots to hang onto whatever they are climbing on, I spray those roots daily with water.
I don't grow them like houseplants because they are not houseplants. I do realize that people who do grow was houseplants have different methods of culture, but they don't fit my way of gardening.
I guess it's true, as the old saying goes "What works for one, might not work for the other." I guess when it comes right down to it no plant is a house plant ... they all start out growing in the earth in some area of the world. But then again ... most any plant can become a house plant if one can duplicate it's natural growing conditions or at least near enough that the plant is happy and thrives indoors.
I would love to be able to grow them in the ground and let them climb or do their own thing like that! But, I would need an awfully large greenhouse! Or, better yet ... I would love to live in Hawaii or Australia or an Island in the South Pacific somewhere.
I want to move to Costa Rica or Puerto Rico (or GUAM), but my husband says I'll have to be a widow first....Hmmm....
If our 401K comes back after the financial crisis, I may be able to get him to Hawaii though in about 10-12 years.
LOL ... I've never been to any Islands other than the Bahamas but I've heard that Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Guam are gorgeous areas! I would just love to get out of Daytona Beach but my DH probably won't retire until he's in his 80's!
Its been a while since I was over in Daytona. We were there for Bike Week several years ago. Somehow when we are thinking of going to the beach we end up at either Amelia Island or St. George Island.
My husband and I have been here since he got out of the military in 1973. He grew up in Orlando and always loved Daytona. I would rather live somewhere else but he loves his job so we are here. LOL. I can't remember the last time we went to the beach, only about a mile and a half away but as we've gotten older things have changed. When we were young we spent every free minute on the beach! We have a boat and take it out in the intracoastal waterway but the past few years we haven't found a lot of time to take the boat out either! He teaches at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and loves his job so we will be here until the time comes that he is ready to retire.