Right, Dom....and don't the plants know it!!!!
December Hoyas
LOL, I've been known to be out on my deck at night, playing in the dirt and tending to plants, but I do have lights out there! Thank goodness we have weather conducive to gardening almost year round. The only thing I don't like about the area I live is the fact that we have to mow the lawn 9 months of the year!
We did have a couple of cold nights last month (38F) and I had to drag orchids and hoyas inside for a night or two but I can't complain. We've been fortunate the past few years, with very brief (just a few nights here and there) of really cold temperatures. January is our coldest month and I'm hoping we get by this year with another mild winter. I'm getting too old and lazy to want to do all the work of dragging plants in and out!
I look forward to the days getting longer and daylight saving time to begin again ... love it when it's still light outside at 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Its been a strange one this winter growth wise. I mentioned in a previous thread that H serpens was my only actively growing hoya at the moment....but that isnt actually true.... Quite a few are growing, albeit not as rapidly as the H serpens. I can see new growth points and shoots staring on a few, quite early, and some others have slowly been putting on new growth all winter. Its kept the slugs and Geckos happy, who keep munching away, little blighters.
Last winter nothing started until end of Feb/ beginning of March....but they were much more shaded
Thanks Lin & Gesseigail!
Lin, All my hoyas are outside. Right now I have H. mindorensis, H australs & H calycina in bloom. My multiflora flowers all year long. I only bring my hoyas inside during hurricane season or cold spells.
Mine stay outside almost year round too, but here in North Florida the climate is so different than the SW part of the state where you live.
I bring my hoyas and orchids inside if a hurricane is expected to head this way and of course if we have cold spells, which thankfully have been rare the past few years. We do get frost sometimes in winter and have had the occasional hard freeze here over the years, but it's been awhile since we've had a freeze, thank goodness.
Hope you will post your australis bloom photo on the January thread!
I received this Hoya unlabeled in a plant echange (anybody know what it is? Leaves are very large!) Are these little nubs, the beginning of roots? I have wondered if I cut it off ad stick in water if another pland wohld grow . There is another section of these nubby things also.
BB,
Looks like H. obovata.
Gabi
P.S. love everyone's 2009 blooms!