Oh Carol, are you serious? Woo Hoo! I sure hope I can get this one to stay healthy. That plant of yours is really wonderful, nice foliage and oh so pretty blooms too!
Oh gosh, I am doing a happy hoya dance here ... I just went back to look at your photo again and re-read your post and I see you mentioned that it's fragrant too!
December Hoyas
What a delicious thread! Thanks for all the pictures........makes me want every one of them.
Here's my H lacunosa in bloom - I've only had it for a month or two ! and it's blooming already !
And another shot...
And my H multiflora again..
Great pictures, Paula!
Kelly
My Retusa has loads of flowas!!
Blessings,
Awanda
I found this out on the road...didn't know it was there....and not sure if it is H. macgillivrayi or one of the hybrids... any ideas?
and H. curtisii....
"found this out on the road"
sheesh!! I hope you realize just how lucky you are!!
are you sure you found it out on the highway?
Carol has hoyas growing like nuts over on her property - it's amazing to see those
things growing all over her trees. She has them planted everywhere.
Actually Carol, I can't believe you can remember what everything is out there !
Beautiful flowers BTW...
Paula
Out on the road is what we say for :out there!!! It IS H. macgillivrayi, by the way... My next project is ripping out alot of the cv. optimistic . I planted a bunch of NOIDS out there so I could see what they are...too many Optimistic.
Ya know...I really do appreciate where I live 24/7...it never ceases to amaze me that I actually live here...it is like a wonderful dream (full of weeds and mosquitos but...hey)....
Carol
Carol, that curtisii picture is GORGEOUS!
Gabi
I got my hoya book today from Sweden. It is great but I get so confused because diversifolia is not in there??????
I am sure there will be a lot of hoyas not in there...with over 300 in circulation and the book is only 100+ pages.. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas & a Happy New year to all.
Maybe open 12/25?
In 2009 for sure. H mindorensis.
May you all have a blessed Christmas as we celebrate the gift of God's son and our salvation.
Peace and love,
gail
H. australis Christmas.
This isn't the greatest picture but I was out on the porch this morning and noticed H. multiflora with blooms.
Wow, ladies! Thanks
Have 2 blooms on my H obscura - she's so faithful.
Here's a couple pics...
And a shot from behind...
Very nice, Paula!
Paula...isn't obscura the best!!! Well, one of them, anyway.
Hexxish rains here...just like the tropics!!!
Mmmmhhh - I'm with ya girl. I love her - she grows like crazy.. and smells magnificent.
I think I Iike this section of Hoya - obscura, lacunosa. Next on my list is H pusilla - I hear she
smells just great too.
Paula
Yep...pusilla is one of the goodies, too. Smells wonderful. Also H. walliniana...they all look kinda similar but are real sweethearts.
H. mindorensis in bloom now.
Whole plant.
I found these calycina buds ready to open today.
Lovely mindorensis and I really like the looks of calycina too. Hope you will post another picture when those buds open!
You live in a perfect area of Florida to grow Hoya's, as well as other tropical plants! Over here on the NE coast of the state, we have been fortunate the past 7 or so years, as we haven't had any hard freezes, but there were a couple of nights last month where it got down to 38 degrees and I had to drag many plants inside!
I am determined to have pretty hoyas this year and the heaters on the front porch just don't do the trick when it gets really cold. Tomorrow I think a cold front is coming in and get down to a real feel of 33, so I will be hauling plants either tonight or tomorrow.
I am going to just go get that poly in a roll out of the storage room and lay it down in every room of my little house.............the hoyas are worth it. The orchids are ok up against the house so they will be fine with the heaters going.
Those are wonderful pictures, Sunshine
multiflora's beem blooming for a couple of weeks
Nice!! Mine sets loads of buds, but they all blast for some reason :(
I hope someone will start a January bloom thread. I know a few of y'all live in tropical zones and have hoyas blooming often. Carol, Paula, Sunshinesw? Or anyone who has them blooming in their greenhouse or indoors? My dream is to someday have four or more blooming at the same time!
The only other Hoya besides multiflora that I have with a bloom right now is a little lacunosa growing in a teeny jar of water. and, possibly ds-70, which blooms almost year round. I will have to go out on the deck and look at it, I think I remember seeing blooms on that one last week.
Here's the little lacunosa in the jar of water:
My multiflora blasted the first buds right after I acquired it and then looked like it was not a happy hoya ... yellowing, dropping leaves. I think it was Doug who suggested putting it in one of those two part african violet pots and it's seemed pretty happy since I potted it up in that pot. I keep the reservoir pot half full of water and the plant seems to be doing okay. It does love water!
Maybe that's the problem. I just have the pot itself sitting in an AV pot, didn't know I had to actually plant it in the pot!!
I bet it'll outgrow it fast, eh?
Theres only one problem growing Hoyas outside Lin, unlike in a greenhouse with lights, when the days are short, like now, your time is limited tending them.......5 minutes a week more daylight we're getting here now..slowly........slowwwly the days are getting longer :))