LOL--I repeat myself all the time!
LOL--I repeat myself all the time!
April OT
Love that variegated Hoya bella! I received cuttings of the regular green bella in trade last year. It rooted but is a very slow grower. Still alive, thank goodness but not doing much. I hope to someday I get to see blooms on it.
Eileen: Some of these Hoyas are so confusing to me. It's really hard to keep them labeled correctly. Check out these photo's of H. purpureo fusca at Christina's website: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20pur-fusca%20min.htm These are all purpureo fusca but so different in color.
I have one Hoya I received as a cutting in the David Liddle co-op last spring. It was labeled H. acuta and just bloomed for the very first time. The fragrance is amazing ... come to find out it isn't acuta any longer! AlohaHoya/Carol told me that it used to be known as H. verticillata from Bogor but is now H. amoena and that David Liddle changed the name but never goes back and informs anyone.
Oops, forgot the photo. This is Hoya amoena with it's first bloom. Fragrance is wonderful in the evening!
I do love my hoyas.............noticed a big bloom forming and starting to open on one of my ordinary ones I don't even know the name of..........if it evens has one...............
Loving Imadigger's and Lin's photos.........
Lin, I sent Christina an email and pictures of my "phyllura". She said it sure looks like purpureo fusca. I've changed the name tag, and will call it that.
I went to her website and her photos could be due to different lighting, or with or without flash. I know when I take pictures of my violets I take a few under different lighting so I can get almost the exact color. Even then it's not perfect. I'm certainly no photographer, just let me point and click. LOL
LOL Eileen, I need someone to invent a camera for me that is just that ... point and shoot ... and have it get the lighting right every time! I cannot take a decent picture for the life of me. I will take 75 pictures and ... maybe ... maybe get one halfway decent one!
I wonder with Christina's purpureo fusca blooms, if those photo's are different plants, or are all blooms from the same plant? I figure with different growing conditions, soil, lighting, location and even age of plant, there could possibly be differences in shades of blooms? Sure is pretty no matter what shade the bloom!
Went to a garden center after Logees on Sat. Even though I have no garden, I couldn't resist these, maybe I'll plant a pot garden for outside my door--Camera doesn't quite pick up all the pastel hues of pink and blues...I need one of those perfect point and shoot cameras too Eileen and Lin!
Nemesis-Opal Innocence
Oh, they are so pretty. I wonder if they would grow down here in the heat and humidity of our summer?
Phoebe: Is that beautiful flower Nemesia? It sure is pretty!
Eileen: I think Nemesia is an Annual, might be very short lived down here but wouldn't hurt to try. It sure is pretty ... I'm going to google to see if I can find some information about them.
There are 61 Nemesia listed in Plant Files :http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=nemesis&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&searcher[genus]=Nemesia
Check out this DG article I found when googling: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1532/ It shows a beautiful Nemesia for Florida gardens!
Oh my, this has been a fun thread to read through ..... all the pictures are so pretty. I can't believe what all so many of you can grow outside already!! Or should I say all the time in Lin's case. A few cots or lounge chairs and that pool house is the perfect guest house!
Lin your H amoena has a beautiful bloom on it, interesting about the name change. You can hardly keep up with hoyas it seems. I bought one from Carol/Aloha Hoya awhile back that was called H. verticillata . It definitely has different leaves than yours but it too smells divine! I wonder if it still has the same name?
H Lobbi from last month
Oh, Brenda............so excited as I have both of those but they don't get any sun on the front porch. The winds have been too high.........up to 70mph one day. But the winds seem to be slowing down so I have to figure out how to get hoyas out so they will bloom for me.........
I didn't tell you but one of my daughters confessed the other day that she and her husband keep dreaming that someday they can escape to Idaho to live out their lives.............I am so surprised because he doesn't hunt. They are both physicians living in a fast world where they are. I assured her that I would love to help them move to Idaho and even come see them if that is what they are still dreaming of doing...............They are both totally family oriented...........and work always comes second.
That wind is wicked in TX, I can't even imagine 70 mph! My poor hoyas don't ever get to go outside (I've seen it snow on the fourth of July here) but they get lots of light from the big windows that face east and most of them are content and bloom, even in the winter!
Central and northern Idaho is a beautiful, beautiful place. And you can find plenty of places that aren't covered with snow 6 months out of the year like it is here where I live. LOL
Lots more to do here than hunt .... The hiking, mountain biking, boating, golfing, skiing, ice skating etc etc can more than keep a family busy while still living life at a more leisurely pace than the city. Listen to me, I sound like a "move to Idaho" advertisement. LOL
I took this picture this afternoon. This is the fourth or fifth set of blooms on my hoya carnosa since December. It's climbing up into the second story windows. The house is really perfumed at night!
Look at those blooms..........I am soooooooooo jealous of your natural light at that altitude.......I remember living at the base of a mountain at 6700 feet and the natural light was so intense........just wonderful............It may be hot here but we don't get that many hours of sunlight a year compared to you.
I don't know what's wrong with this page. It's extended waaay wide! I have tried to "fix" it to no avail, and have checked
all other threads on different forums and they are fine! Geesh! Sometimes I despise computers, LOL. I know it's something
I've done, just can't figure it out to correct it!
Brenda: Your hoya's are amazing. You must have ideal conditions there in Idaho, as all of your plants are always
gorgeous! Your Hoya verticillata sure is different from my plant, it's so confusing. I don't understand why the grower
would change the names, making it hard for anyone to know what they really have. I've changed the label on mine
to read H. acuta (amoena). It's odd, I have that one above that I got from a DL order labeled acuta and another
little cutting I received in trade from another DG'er labeled H. amoena ... they are both identical.
Your H. carnosa is absolutely stunning! I love the way it's climbing up the windows like that. I really love the looks of
that foliage ... the leaves look to be a light bright green with darker edge, or is that my eyesight? The blooms are just
wonderful next to that foliage!
Well, April is coming to a close, can't believe it's almost May! Where does the time go when we get older? Seems like it
was just Christmas!
I was out on the deck watering yesterday and found this little orchid with one bloom.
And, a hanging basket of Calibrachoa that I planted last month.
Streps, Chirita and Episcia are tough little buggers. This winter, we had an ice storm that cracked our basement wall, about ten feet from my light stands, and I was sure everything froze...there was snow in the basement. I cried, but left the plant lights and hoped that something would survive. I didn't see much happening, and then I had surgery, and my husband watered the plants in the light stands, which I thought were dead.
I have about 30 plants that have sprouted from what looked like some pretty dead, brown leaves! The best part...my favoritest strep ever, Sylvia, is one of the survivors. Someone here sent me a slew of leaves, and those were still in a gladware container growing leaves, and they were ALL still alive!
Hi Lyn! I never thought about it before...hoya looks good with a lot of flowers! Very pretty! Gonna put that one in the vault^_^
Celene--those rising from the dead survivor stories are the best ones--Growth in the face of impossible odds--great!
Somebody asked me which pet leaves I had with mouse ears. I waited til I could check the names and to see how they were doing before posting a response, and now I'm not sure who was asking! I'm pretty sure it was on this forum?
I almost fell over when I saw this today-- SD bearded Iris Bee's Knees--remember why I bought it now!!
NICE!!! Love that color.
gran, that is gorgeous.
Beautiful color!---I love Iris
iris are my second favorite flower,anyone wanna guess what my first favorite one is LOL
JIM
Ummm, petunias?
This message was edited Apr 29, 2009 6:59 PM
Ummmmmmmmmmm, hoyas?
Ummmm,roses? (Assuming Streps. are eliminated LOL) Or pansies?
its streps , geee but im very fond of the way gardina smell ,jasmine too
I am too Jim ^_^.
Hope this works, I started a new thread with my Balloon flowers.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/982854/