June Blooms

Eriostemma ciliata

Hoya chlorantha

Both awesome flowers!

ric

I agree, very lovely flowers. You sure can grow hoyas!

Christine

Hoya obscura

Smells divinely sweet and fresh!

Hoya sp. Thai #3

Blooms for awhile and smells yummy but not strong.

Joni-

Great flowers and as always great photos! Do you add limestone to your eriostemmas and if so how much?

By the way, love the latest updates on your website!


Kelly

Great growing, Joni ... Beautiful Blooms!

They are all beautiful. Congratulations Joni!

YES...gorgeous flowers!!!

I think that the sp. Thais #3 is one of my favorites!!!!

Thanks everyone!

Kelly - I add about 1 tsp of limestone since the pots are small...they like a high ph...non acidic.

Carol - Yes the sp. Thai#3 sorta caught me by surprise this am...I must have too many plants if I don't see that one coming?

Just out of curiosity, is the limestone you use "dolomitic lime"? I have that for my clematises and wouldn't need to buy anything else if I could use that- I have lots. The nursery told me it neutralizes the soil though, it doesn't give it a high ph. Thanks.


Christine

I use pelletized organic dolomite lime...and yes it neutralizes the soil...or in otherwards raises the ph of the soil.

Cool, thanks Joni. I'm not going to add it yet to the one eriostemma that's already got buds (guppyi), don't want to tempt fate, but I will to the others.

Christine

Per David Liddle, hoyas like a pH of 5.5 to 6.5...and he includes Eriostemmas with Hoyas. He always tests the soil or organic matter where he collects a hoya and says he has never collected one from an area outside of that range. But the darn things are so tough, ... who would know?

Joni, gorgeous flowers!!! Thai # 3 is super nice!!

Hmmm...I guess the only way to test lime or not is to do a side by side comparison?
Or talk to Mr. Green who has those instructions on his website.

Here is H. serpens. Surprised it bloomed for me the vine is only 5 inches long.
Danielle

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pH meters/strips are helpful...the strips don't work here because of the ambient humidity...so I have a pH meter...not expensive. Often each batch of medium I mix is different having to do with the water.... But it IS true that Eriostemmas like a nice dose of dolomite or calcium from time to time.

Cute mathilde in bloom.

I would love to bloom either one of serpens or mathilde...heck...I can't grow them!!! They rot for me. I water them too much, I am sure!!!

Here is looking up about 20 feet in the tree, H. carnosa. It's leaves, on the left, are HUGE!!!

Wow, those are huge leaves!

I say again ... you live in Paradise. How awesome to be able to gaze up into the trees and see beautiful Hoya's growing to their heart's content way up in the trees like that!

Wow...just had to say, GREAT PHOTOS of the individual blooms, especially!

2 umbels are different color. hmmm

That happens! OH, I wanted to post another picture of H. dischorensis. The first was white, Awanda's was yellow and this one...green!!!!

Dontcha hate it when you do that?

And here is H. palawanica - GREAT leaves but the flower doesn't last long....

h. Arnoittiana smell stinks

Beautiful flowers everyone!!!
My pachyclada with 6 umbels, 4 showing.

Lovely pachyclada, Sunshinesw. It is one of my favourites :) I love the scent.
Regards Marie

Hoya obovata is blooming again

Hoya obovata back lit

Oh my, that is stunning! I have obovata and can't wait to see some first blooms!

I think that one of the things about fragrance is that we stick our noses in the umbel and inhale...while in the bush the scent is dispersed. My arnottiana is hanging off the lanai with 4 blooming umbels and it smells quite nice...at that distance.

I smelled H. coronaria last night, and to me it smells of Sesame Oil. ????

ricfl: Hoya obovata is lovely!

Alohahoya: I totally agree with you. And someting more about the smell that I think everyone should think about is that hoyas do smell different depending on time of day and night. I have hoyas that smells really good in the daytime, but do not smell pleasent at all during the night. An example is H. vitellina it has a quite good smell in daytime, but at night it smells chlorine.

Ric, nice photos!
my cumingiana is keep going on for about 3 months now. Here is part of the plant.

Love everything about the Fungii. Very generous bloomer.

Sunshine: That is an amazing cummingiana! Really beautiful! H. cummingiana is another one I'm waiting (not so patiently) to see blooms on, it's growing well but no sign of bloom spurs yet!

Plants sure have minds of their own, don't they? My obovata has had one peduncle for many months now, but no flowers yet!

I did find one little bloom cluster today on H. heuschkeliana ...

One Hoya that I've had trouble with is multiflora. It was originally potted in a mixture of orchid bark/soil/perlite but the leaves kept yellowing and dropping. Someone said it loved water so I put it into a non draining container with hydroton and water. It still has a little yellowing in the leaves but no leaf drop. I'm now thinking the problem is lack of fertilizer ... I'm trying to get better about that!

Budding multiflora ....

Yours looks good Lin! Min is still giving me grief...I've given it everything but the kitchen sink and it still blasts every bud it forms!!