Oooh, neat looking flower ... what's the name on that one?
May Flowers
On the photo is H. vetellina...do you mean H. vitellina?
^_^ If I had clicked on the photo to see the larger version I would have noticed the name ... duh, having one of my older blonde moments!
LoL Lin, and you now know that the spelling is incorrect....thank you Carol for pointing that out. Oooops! Yes it is Hoya vitellina.
RHP looking so pretty!
It's one of my favorite for sure.
Carnosa KQ with dark flowers in with light flowers. Sun bleached leaves and the leaves are thick & succurant.
Great photo, that is a really Beautiful plant! I can't wait for my RHP to grow up and set buds, those flowers are great! Even if I never got blooms on this one though, I still love the foliage!
Close up.
Lin, yes the leaves are so pretty. I just love this plant.
I really like the dark pink blooms .. my KP, KQ, compacta and Krinkle 8 all seem to have the light pink flowers. The leaves sure do get bleached out in the sun, don't they? I had a KP hanging in my screened pool enclosure and the leaves got so pale ... I thought the screen would filter a lot of the intense sun but it didn't and I didn't like the bleached out foliage so I moved them to a shadier spot. They are okay during fall, winter and spring but the summer sun seems to fry them.
Lin, I have carnosa hanging West side under part shade and RHP hanging West side under my Croton tree.
H fungii nearly ready to pop.
Wow! fungii is nice ... I like that white bloom against the dark foliage. The sun seems so much more intense in your part of the state than it is here, I'm surprised the Hoya's don't fry in that location, unless they are in heavy shade of the croton or other trees. Mine seem happiest when hanging out in the fresh air in the trees, but unfortunately we have (it seems) hundreds of squirrels that like to dig in my hanging baskets and tear up the plants!
Nice growing, ladies!!!!
very pretty flowers.
I have kerri, obovata and two carnosa plants hanging in the lychee tree. The squirrels don't bother them. At least not yet. They are too busy eating the lychees. I hope they leave us some. DH chases them all day long. They climb to the roof and then jump to the tree, and feast on the fruit. We have a bumper crop this year. Lychees and squirrels, that is. LOL
Hi Eileen. Oh, please show us some pictures of your Hoya blooms! I have an obovata that I received in a trade last year and can't wait for it to eventually grace me with flowers. I also have a small cutting of the variegated kerri, but it's so small that it's going to be a long, long time before it grows up enough to bloom.
All the squirrels in my yard are my fault because I feed the birds, which means I feed the squirrels too! At one time I had about 20 feeders out, I'm now down to about 7 or 8 seed feeders, 3 suet feeders and 3 hummingbird feeders. I put out bird seed but I also have a large terra cotta plant tray on the front wall where I put raisins and dried berries for the Mocking Birds who have been feeding babies the past couple of months. The Blue Jays and Woodpeckers like raisins too and I think the darn squirrels will eat anything! My backyard neighbor has a lot of Loquat/Japanese Plum trees in her yard and when they are full of fruit the squirrels hang out over there ... another month and maybe they will stay in her yard, LOL. I don't hang my orchids out in the trees anymore because the squirrels tore them up awhile back, some orchids even went missing from the baskets. There are probably some lovely decorated nests in some of those trees!
I try to just put enough food out so there won't be any left at night to attract unwanted critters like mice and rats! A few times I have forgotten to check the tray on the front porch before dark to make sure it's empty. Haven't had mice or rats but there's a large Raccoon who comes by @ 2:00 a.m. or so and sits up on the brick wall and has himself a feast! I've seen him on a few occasions, I need to take the screen out of the kitchen window so maybe I can get a picture of him some night, hard to get a good shot through the screen at night even though our outside lights are on all night.
My flash didn't go off, but this is H. shepherdii, blooming it's little head off, and it smells soooo good!
Someday while we are all sitting around with a glass of wine, remind me to tell you the story of my husband, Bob, and the Squirrel Zapper. Worked like a charm! I wanted to make a Daniel Boone had out of their tails....but we were going sailing and I would never use it!!!
Carol
Eeeeew! Squirrel tails? LOL, Carol, I don't drink but I just might need a stiff one for that story! ^_^ I think Daniel Boone had a coon skin cap ... or was that Davey Crokett?
There's a professor at the college where my husband teaches who lives out in the country and he shoots the squirrels on his property! The first time I heard him telling that story I was so shocked! His wife doesn't like him killing the squirrels and gets mad at him for doing it but he said they are so destructive he doesn't want them around. Whenever I see him now I say "Oh, I remember you. You're the squirrel murderer!" He gets a kick out of it. I told him he should move to the city and he wouldn't have to contend with so many squirrels. If I ever find a stuffed squirrel I plan on gift wrapping it and having my husband put it on his desk when he's not there!
I think this will by my last contribution for May... lovely obscura with sunshine from behind.
/Christina
Love H. obscura...I hope mine has all the colors of yours when it finally opens.
Funny that even across the continents...hoyas bloom at or near the same time of year?
Joni
Love this large umbel of H fungii flowers.
With the leaves.
That is a beautiful photo of a beautiful plant!
.....and H. dischorensis again...it never wants to stop!!!
And the Hoya I wanted so badly when I first started collecting....H. coronaria...one of my favorites (an Eriostemma)
Carol the last time my Dischorensis bloomed, the flowas were all yellow. Humm I wonder what I have. Would you post a picture of the leaves?
Blessings,
Awanda
Carol-
Coronaria is one I've tried twice and failed with twice! Unless you count the little one node shriveled piece I'm still trying to root! The flowers remind me of marzipan! May have to try one more time.....It's beautiful!
Kelly
H. coronaria -Eriostemma coronaria isn't easy for indoor growers because the eriostemmas really like full sun and they want to climb....altho this one IS growing on a hoop and it did bloom!.
Awanda...I will post pic. of the leaves. Flower color is the least constant indicator of a species...least reliable. Color can change with different collections and with nutrition and environment. But they all smell the same!!!!
Here is the leaf. The margins are deeply recurved...and altho you can't see in the photo, the corollas are almost all green.
Thanks for all the lovely pics. Here some hoyas that did flower in May
Hoya macgillivrayi Mount Tozer IML 279
Hoya sp. Sulawesi IML 1384 (varies a lot in color). It is very willing to flower.
Beautiful blooms Marie! If you are going to grow Hoyas the best places to live have to be Hawaii, Florida, and Sweden. I wish I could relocate!
Welcome to the forum.
Doug
Doug, thanks! I´ve been here on Dave´s garden on and off the last couple of years, but with small children, work and so on time is not always avaible to do what I like to do best. Wich is talking to people about hoyas :)
A lot of hoyas need a few years to start flowering, so you maybe just need some patient. I´m sure you get to enjoy a lot of hoya flowers too soon.
Regards Marie