Happy Birthday Ric. I'm a little late in the day with good wishes but I hope you have been having a wonderful day with lots of blooming beauties!
Happy Birthday ricfl!
Ric, Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday Ric!
I hope that you have a great day =)
Happy Birthday Ric !! And hope you have lots more!! Mary
Thank's so much you all! Having a great day finishing up my new deck and hoya areas.
I'll post pics soon
Hope you had a Happy Birthday, Ric. It was too nice a day to spend inside on the computer.
I decided to plant in the plants today.
Happy Birthday, Ric!
Kelly
Oooh, can't wait to see pictures!
Happy B-day, Ric.
You're working on the deck on your birthday?
Many warm and happy wishes for your Birthday, Ric... Do you have great plans to celebrate later if you aren't exhausted from working on the deck?
Here is the deck/.......I'm really happy, the gazebo and furnishings were gifts, I lucked out!!!
Again, thanks for all the well wishes! It has been a great day.
Ric
It took three weekends of backbreaking work in the florida heat
and here is one on my birthday presents.......once again this year....this hoya sp. India x noid(maybe acuta)?
Great job, Ric! That's a huge job and I can only imagine all the hard work it took to get a project like that completed but it looks fabulous ... a beautiful oasis! A great place to sit back, relax and enjoy the view! (Looks like someone is doing just that in the first photo!)
Ric.,
Your deck is beautiful!!!
You did a great job.
Ric - those leaves look a bit like H. amoena which I first got as H. sp. Bogor or verticillata from Bogor.
Carol....the picture is not too good on the leaves. I have amoena and the leaves on it are narrower and longer. The flowers are close in appearance tho.
Thanks
Ric
Happy Belated Birthday Ric, I hope it was wonderfully blessed with lots of hoya flowas!!
Blessings,
Awanda
Ric....amoena is one of the acuta gaggle and the leaves are the same on all of the them but different in 'larger' or 'smaller'.....
That is a nice job, Ric. The deck looks really nice and even, and the Adenium peeking into one of the photos looks great too.
Whoa, Ric, that's beautiful! LOVE the gifted gazebo and furniture as well!
Happy belated Birthday, my friend!
Wonderful deck and the gazebo looks so inviting. You always create beautiful surroundings. I looks like a superb respite from the Florida sun.
ENJOY!
Mel
Thanks for all the kind words. I'm really enjoying it. I finally got all the grass out of the yard......growing a lawn in florida is really hard work. you need to constantly fert. and use pesticides.
Ric, I like your way of thinking! I detest lawns ... and we have a lot of it. My husband grew up with the nice green expanse of lawn and I have been trying for 34 years to talk him into a native landscape with very little or no grass, but so far to no avail. He is a big help with all the work but I keep telling him it would be so much better for the environment to get rid of it ... no chemicals and fertilizers to pollute the waters! As soon as he retires in another six years our plan is to downsize to a townhouse. Of course I will then have to downsize with the number of plants I have since we will have less space, but that's okay. It's a great trade off in my opinion, not having so much yard maintenance!
I'll bet you could find a townhouse with big lanais/porches for your plants!!
LOL, Carol. Last fall we looked at a townhouse on the water in a county south of us, thinking about investing now for when my DH does decide to retire. It has a nice little screened lanai/porch. There wasn't a lot of room for plants on the small lanai but enough that I could put a little table & chairs out there and have a few hanging plants as well as a few on a stand. There was also a nice little courtyard in the front of the house and also lots of nice windows inside that would be perfect for hanging hoya's! I don't keep many plants inside this old dark house we've been in for 34 years and I told my husband when we do sell this house and look for a retirement place, the top of my MUST have/priority list is lots of large windows and a screened lanai! We don't care about having a pool but must have a screened lanai or porch of some sort.