May Flowers

Hoya patella

One solo flower on this peduncle

GOSH...what a great photo!!!! Please send it to Mark for Stemma!!!!

Very lovely. Patella doesn't need more than one flower to be stunning!

Beautiful photo!

Joni, that is really well done. I love the use of the pool as a backdrop- makes your photos so vivid and distinctive.

You all are so nice..it would be hard to take a bad photo of this one!
Yes the pool makes it easy to get great angles and put the total focus on the bloom.
Looks like a piece of hydro fell in the water...is floating by :0)

Wish I had a pool to use as a backdrop !!! Great photo Joni, as usual.

Here's my H. obscura with 80+ buds - can't get a good clear shot, we're
super overcast today...

Ooooh, patella is so gorgeous! That's one I have on my DL order but haven't received an invoice from him yet confirming. I fell in love with it when I saw a picture Carol posted awhile back. Has to be my favorite Hoya so far, I just love that bloom! I hope someone will upload a photo or two of patella to PF: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/82603/ We don't have any pic's for that one and it's really a "looker".

Paula: Your obscura is lovely! Wow, look at all those buds! Maybe they will all open at once, wouldn't that be amazing. Please post a pic of the open bloom when the time comes! I love obscura and bought one a year or so ago but couldn't keep it alive for long. Not sure what the problem was, it was a rooted plant, went downhill quickly, and was totally dead within a week of me receiving it. I will have to try that one again at some point cause I loved the foliage.

I found the common H. compacta with buds and one bloom open.

Beautiful plant - and I KNOW that's a linearis in the background!!!!

Nothing spectacular - but it is what I have...

Hindu rope

My 'baby' Hindu rope (4 inch pot)

Krimson Princess - I really love these old carnosa's.
So reliable; bountiful too.

H. schneei
Sweet smelling and very dainty.

Alison,
Your carnosas are beautiful and the backbone of my collection too!
They are always blooming and just no trouble at all...that's why we take them for granted....and love them at the same time.

I see the H. linearis in the background...do you have any photos of the peduncles that develop on this one?

Joni

No peduncles that I have detected, although I check
often.

If I find a peduncle on that the world will know!

H. padangensis

Smells like lysol...lemony maybe

Joni, I don't know if this is the norm or not, but when my H. linearis bloomed last fall the peduncles were almost invisible - 1/4 inch or less in length and fell off when the blooms faded.

Barb

Thanks Barb!
I am fairly sure this one only gives 'a fall show' so I will look closer then.
I've got three large ones I've had since winter...that's a feat in itself.
How long do the blooms last?

The blooms lasted maybe a week at prime, then faded pretty rapidly. The scent was clean and citrusy. I'm hoping I'll be able to find another one. It was the least fussy (well, except for the carnosa group) of all my Hoya last summer... took full sun from noon to sunset and got watered when I hosed the orchids, which was often. :)

H. sp. 1391. Great fragrance...kinda citrusy

This is H. chuniana - nice fat palmately veined leaves...interesting colors, I think

H. pubicalyx RHP, Both Red Buttons and RHP, for me, get the color 'variance' in the flower. Has to do with sun warming the flowers

Alison, I love the carnosa's too, Krimson Princess is my favorite because it was my very first Hoya and came from a dear elderly friend back in the mid 1970's. No fragrance, but still pretty in it's own way.

Joni: Your schneei is dainty and so pretty. I love them even more when they have a nice fragrance.

Barb: Those linearis blooms are gorgeous. I wish I could have kept my linearis alive long enough to see blooms but it just didn't like me!

Carol: I would love to see a picture of the leaves on that chuniana! I love the ones with fat leaves and I like the looks of the darker leaf edging I see there, with that pretty flower.
What can I say about your RHP? That is soooo pretty! I can't wait to get peduncles and blooms on my RHP. Love, Love, Love the color of that bloom!

Carol, almost forgot ... were you referring to my photo here http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=6490857 as H. linearis in the background? If it was the plant in my picture, nope, that's not a Hoya either but another one of those EA plants, labeled Rhipsalis, but the tag is gone and I don't remember which one. Of course with being an EA plant, it was probably mislabeled anyway and for all I know may not even actually be a Rhipsalis! I just bought it because I liked the growth habit.

Here's a closer picture of the Rhipsalis that was hanging next to the hoya compacta in my earlier post.

Joni: Your photo's are always so Awesome with the pool in the background! The blue water really makes a great backing for foliage and blooms. I have tried and tried but still can't get the hang of picture taking, pool or not! I might ask my DH to put a hook out farther over the water and see if I could get some decent pictures with the water as background.

Lin,

I keep meaning to ask...
but - what is a "DH" ? Does it refer to a husband?

LOL, Alison ... Yep, DH is Dear Husband, or Darn Husband or Dratted Husband, or ...

Dave's Garden is the first ever on-line site I've been on and I learned a few of the abbreviations from other's on here!

^_^

Lin, your rhipsalis is pilocarpa maybe not right spelling.

Wow! Great blooms everyone!

Kelly

Not flowers...but you could consider them 'has beens' and 'to be'... Seed pods of cv. Black Star on the tree...and in the upper right hand corner you can see some blurry things? That is a seed pod that has burst dispersing the seeds on their little parachutes. Eriostemmas have huge folicles...they look like bananas!!!

Here's my H. samoensis in bloom again.

Doncha love the fragrance!!!!!

Wow some really good flower pics.....love the patella, pandengensis and samoensis. Here is my arnottiana first time for this 5 year old plant.

My H compacta is flowering and the flowers are half the size of the year before. Is this a nutrient problem?

Mine are too Dom. I believe that it was due, for me at least, to giving
fertilizers too early. The buds developed back in February/March and
never had before.

That is because I never usually give ferts during the cool season of
winter/early spring. Smaller blooms. Next year I will do as always
and keep ferts out of the greenhouse until it is nice and warm and
the greenhouse is unloaded.

Lin,
Thanks but with flowers this beautiful it's nearly impossible to take a bad shot...unless the plant falls into the pool of course.

Carol,
Do you grow out the seeds from your Eriostemmas? If yes...is it a long process to seedling and then to plant? Is H. chuniana different from H. chunii? I am assuming yes but you know me.:)

Paula,
I love the variation in shades of pink in your H. samoensis ...very different from mine.

Ric,
Congratulations on the first bloom! The great think about that one is it should bloom for about two weeks. Does yours smell pleasant in anyway?

I have grown out the seeds...on cv. Black Star and on ciliata. The seeds germinate quickly...but it takes ages for them to grow large enough to bloom...years.

Chuniana is the correct name for H. chunii (ii is the ending for a male person and it was named after a woman...per DL)

Carol

Lovely H. samoensis!!! My H. limoniacas are blooming again too!!!

This is H. aldrichii...a very different pink...

first bloom of H. dischorensis from DL....

Spring has sprung, yes Carol !!! Nice pics....

Beautiful, beautiful flowers everyone!!

I have some in bloom too, lacunosa, multiflora, siariae, pusilla, and dozens of buds- potsii, acuta and cv Christine all for the first time (Christine has four umbels, one ready to pop), nicholsonae, limoniaca. Yes, it certainly is spring.

Christine

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Beautiful flowers everyone. Currently blooming here are H kenejiana, compacta, RHP, lacunosa and cumingiana, I miss my camera.