Gail, I think that hoya is a lacunosa. Take a picture when the imperialis is blooming. My imperialis is growing but far from blooming size.
I see a ric rac cactus? behind the new hoya basket.
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Let me go take a picture of the lacunosa you found for me and the picture of the plant I found yesterday. OK>>>>>>now I have two lacunosas (LOL)
Here is my old one you found.
The old lacunosa is still blooming.
Yes, you saw a ric rac cactus.
Yes, you did see a ric rac cactus but here is my pride and joy with 7 different color flowers in here.
Lots of sun in this picture of my giant epi basket.
When you open the picture of hoya australis you will see that she is climbing the ceiling!
When you open this picture up, you can see that she is climbing on anything and everything.........to the next plants, etc.........
And.........bummer those red buds blasted. Hoya Imperialis needs to get out of that west sun. She likes less light to bloom.
what the heck,wheres all the strep talk,lol
awesome pictures ladies,wished i could grow things like that
JIM
no one ever post pictures of streps except on the bloom forum I think............I posted a picture of Michael which doesn't look like the one on the strep site.............
I think there are just a few of us who are strep 'junkies'
LOL,
You are all turning me into a Strepoacholic! Sorry, I can't spell! Your pictures are so awesome,I was totally seduced.It is all your fault.....Yeah,right!!
Lynn
I started 3 little 6" baskets from cuttings of Aeschynanthus 'Coral Flame' and now they are all blooming. Think it is time to put them in one big basket and move outdoors on the porch.
Good Morning, all. It's 34 degrees and I personally sick of it. But at least we aren't flooding. The pic is of my 'Ma's Taffy Swirl'. It is molding in the center; I spritzed it with NEEM. I tend to keep them a little dry for fear of this happening, but it did. Hope it pulls out of this.
Very nice Coral Flame Gail!
Mortswife,I would take a healthy leaf from that AV and try to start it.The plant either got too wet or wet and cold.That's my two cents worth.
Also,take a real close look and make sure it's not mealies or mites,because that would spread to your other plants.I coudn't really tell from the picture.
Went out in the woods looking for morels today and the wildflowers are busting out all over--found this really unusual violet so brought it home, well actually moved it about 200 ft to my flower bed where I could keep an eye on it
This is what they normally look like--and oh yeah-- no morels:( with all the debris from the ice storm it is really hard to look, so they are probably there--but well hidden
What plant is that, Gran? Certainly is a pretty one with purple little flowers.
It is a wild violet--not sure which, will have to drag out my id book--this particular one grows everywhere--but you don't often see the white on the flowers. we have several different varieties including a yellow one that grow around here.
I love the wild violets. Must be warming up where you are HGran.
Gail..Wonderful exhuberant hoyas!
Jim, Under March Blooms VI, I just posted a group picture of streps, some blooming from leaves you gave to me last fall.
GL it was warming up-- but tomorrow night it is going to freeze--does this every year-- teases the hostas out of the ground and then ZAPPPP!!!! I am gathering up clay flower pots and such to cover them up, never really works--but I don't give up.
Have you ever tried cardboard boxes to cover your plants when a freeze is expected? I have some 'used' long narrow PMail boxes that I put on the tips of my plumerias. It stops the freeze damage to the tips. It may be better than clay pots, which are pourous. Just a thought. I left freezing temps 20+ years ago. I sure don't miss it. ^_^
I do have some small ones-- the hostas are not big yet so won't take much-- I know plastic pots don't work. a bunch of them are still in pots from our move-- we have a dead fridge in the yard-- thinking about putting them in there.
Gran,
Are these Hostas in pots? If they are in the ground they should be fine,unless you grow less hardy ones in your area.
Lynn
They'll survive-- I just hate to see the first leaves get killed-- always seems to set them back so...happens every year tho. You would think they'd learn^_^
Lol....They must be slow learners! ^_^. I don't blame you.I hate it when my plants get nipped,too.Here in zone 5 all kinds of things come up early and then get slammed.
Since the winds are going to be over 50mph tonight with a temp of only 44 and my poly around the porch is already loose, I had to go take one last set of shots...............Forgot my pretty long long dendrobium yellow green one.
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This is my prized aeschynanthus Tia Pink........can't decide whether to take a chance or not and leave her out there. What if the winds knock down the basket?
Here is the whole basket of Tia Pink Aeschynanthus.
This is just an abutilon with green and yellow variegated foliage.....but check to the right of her. That is a giant catt orchid getting ready to bloom the most fragrant lime green flowers. Please wind don't knock my plants all down.............
Great photos! I love abuliton's.
Hope you make it thru the night ok, Gail . . . I'd help secure the poly if I were closer . . . at least it would help with some of the wind . . . ^_^
Gail, hope you made it throught the storms. That Tia Pink sure is a beauty. Did she make it through? I can't believe the weather the country is having: tornados, floods, freezing temps. I thought Spring was here.
LOL That IS spring in the Ozarks!! Gail that is a gorgeous plant!!
I have to share the story of Tia Pink. There is a man in Beorne, Texas who found this plant in Florida that someone had hybridized but it is not registered. Ken, the owner of the nursery, only wanted to sell a couple of cuttings for 7.50 a pot. I just kept waiting looking everytime I went to see if I could get a basket for sale. Finally last summer I found both Tia Pink and Coral Flame. However, the Coral Flame was nothing but a propagation woody plant that didn't eve make it.
But.........I grabbed my scissors and took cuttings from the mother dying plant and now I have a basket of her outside (small but growing)...........will go take a picture of Coral Flame, a registered plant not nearly as pretty as Tia Pink. I just put her little pots all together in this basket yesterday.
I just stuck some new leaves (strep) and tried 1/4 Volkmann's wicking mix with 3/4 perlite............let you know what happens...........
I am getting senile........just read the whole thread and had taken a picture of Coral Flame before I put the 3 pots together........
Mortswife, I use marathon granules in every single pot of gesneriad I grow...........also use Neem oil but just for cleaning the leaves and making them shiny.........I, too, would take a leaf, wash it good with soap and water and stick it...........
Here are a few pics I took last night in case they died from the wind.........
The cane begonias are blooming while it is cool.
One of the kinds of graphtophylum I love so much..........(caricature plant)
