Gail, I didnt' know you were selling on e-bay .. when did that happen? I sure do miss a lot when I don't pay attention! ^_^
I got H. obscura in trade from you a year ago but it didn't survive. I adore the foliage on that one, gets real red when in strong light! I will have to go google to see what the blooms look like. I don't know much about Hoya's but I guess there could be different clones of obscura out there.
hmm ... This site says they are salmon/orange with yellow center! http://www.rareflora.com/hoyaobs.html
I think a couple of these pic's in PF may be incorrect: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/184311/
My Hoya's website: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20obscura%20min.htm
http://hoyas.ca/gal/hoya-obscura
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Mine were like a deep gold..........fortunately I can get that one anyday.............I will save a small one for you when I do..........thanks for the pictures............I think that what I was seeing were the deep goldish orange and a brighter salmon orange.............same plant.......will look at your files.......thanks..........
Thanks........all the pictures now make sense............there are variations of colors on the same plant.........I think they are all correct..................
gail, nice kerri blooms! I am so surprised that your huge australis has never bloomed. Mine is maybe half that size, about 4 or 5 yrs old, grown from a single cuttings....blooming right now for the first time. It gets very bright indirect light all day, I have it hanging just below two skylights. I also think it is just about that age and size when it should be blooming, which is why I am wondering why yours isn't....is it getting enough light? I have heard australis can take alot of direct sun, unlike some hoyas.
My australis is just a baby plant I got last December so she is only 7 months old and I guess she just has to mature some more before she blooms.
What??? That's a baby plant?? It's so big! You will probably be seeing blooms any day now. I just was outside watering my hoyas and a whole colony of ants has taken up residence in one of them....ewwwww....they all came running out in a panic, carrying their eggs.....
Gail, I thought your australis had bloomed already? I got one from you that isn't nearly as big as the one in your photo and it bloomed last year. It was located out in my pool area in the sun so I don't know if that had anything to do with it blooming.
My sister and brother in law were visiting from South Florida a few weeks ago and I gave that hoya to her as well as a full blooming wayetti and blooming lacunosa! I should have just given her rooted divisions instead of the entire plants but I do have two more australis, one more wayetti and also another lacunosa. I'm just not sure if the australis I still have are the same one as I got from you because these haven't bloomed yet. One australis I have left is an EA plant and the other I got in trade.
My sister and brother in law love plants but both work full time and don't have a lot of time for tending plants. Hoya's seem to be easy care and don't require a lot of attention so hopefully they will do well for them and their giant dogs won't eat them! ^_^ They have three huge dogs, one is an English Mastiff that weighs @ 215 lbs now and the other two are right at 100 lbs. It's the Mastiff I think who ate plants in the past.
This is the H. australis I got from you that I gave to my sister:
looks like mine, australis ssp tenuipes (sp???) Thats a nice pic, like how you caught the sun on the leaves set against that Florida-blue sky!
I only have the one australis, though I do have a tiny little australis Lisa that I have been babying for a few years now, someone sent me the cutting from Isreal, took me forever to root it, lost most of it to rot in the process, but it finally caught and since has just grown soooo slowly. Five leaves in 3 years, still only 3 inches high! Finally this spring I got some action, a new 2 inch section with 4 leaves!! I was overjoyed!!! Then last saturday we had an awesome thunderstorm with lots of wind and one of my other hoyas got blown over and landed right on top of the little Lisa. Took out an old leaf and 3 of the new ones. The vine is still intact, so I am hopeful. This plant has just been nothing but trouble!
Lin, I do have the mother of the one you are showing. I have used her to propagate so many new plants that she can't bloom (LOL)
gail, I must have missed your post above where you said you didn't post about plant thefts...my mistake, it was plantlady!
Lin, sorry to hear about your hoyas being stolen. Mine are mostly hanging in the back of the house, so I feel a little safer, but you still never know. It wouldn't bother me so much if someone stole a plant I bought, but most of mine have been painstakingly grown from cuttings....
I hear you on hoping they enjoy them - and of course you would hope that they'd take care of them, but somehow I don't see the type of person that would steal a plant as being very nurturing. And I'd worry that they might come back. You should hang your more valuble plants in the back of the house.
Gail: LOL, I should have known ... you are the propagating plant queen! Even when your plants aren't in bloom they are amazing! I've been meaning to ask, do you still garden outdoors? I remember a couple of years ago seeing a picture of a very large garden full of beautiful snapdragons (at least I think I remember them being sanpdragon's?) I don't know how you would find the time to do both with all the indoor plants you grow. I don't even know how you keep up with all your indoor plants! I need to find out what kind of vitamins you take! ^_^
jmp24: It is discouraging when plants are stolen right from someone's front porch. We've been in this house 34 years and this little subdivision isn't a real high crime area. I had a huge cactus stolen from the porch years ago and one time at Christmas, one morning we found strings of lights all out in the road from a large tree at the edge of the driveway ... someone apparently drove by and someone reached out the window and grabbed ahold of the strings of lights and just pulled them out into the street. My thought is it's probably a group of bored teenagers who have nothing better to do ... pranksters. I have a large Pony Tail palm sitting right out in that area of the front porch and it's still here. There are also a couple of other smaller plants on the porch ... all that was taken were three of the hanging baskets. I moved the other hoyas out to the back deck andsd decided to just hang ivy and ferns out front. The only plants I really consider valuable are a couple that have Sentimental value to me. My Hoya Krimson Princess and Epiphyllum hookeri that I've had for 33 years ... sentimental value because they were given to me by very dear elderly friends, who were in their mid 80's back then, and have been gone now for quite a few years. The Hoya KP is on my deck and the orchid cactus is under a tree in the corner of the backyard.
Best to keep anything you value highly out of sight! Maybe put a sign on your front porch, only big enough that someone has to be right there to read it, saying "If you love my plants, please help yourself to a cutting, don't take the whole plant". Leave a pair of clippers next to the sign.
I wouldn't leave clippers out . . . there's alot of psycho's out there!
I agree!!
White Agapanthus ...
How beautiful, Lin!!!! Oh my goodness I do remember when we weren't in a drought there really were pretty flowers around...............
Gosh, we had severe drought conditions for so long, with brush fires and wild fires ... were praying for rain. The past month we've had so much rain, I'm surprised there aren't still areas around town underwater. Some areas of the city had major flooding last month with 7-8 days straight of non stop rain. I'd never seen anything like it.
I have this little plant blooming now too but for the life of me I can't remember what it is!!
What a nice bloom and pretty foliage......I have never seen it.
This is not a bloom but it has pretty foliage. I think this is Philodendron 'Autumn' but I'm not certain.
A noid begonia
Plantlady, I believe that is "Angel Wing" begonia, though there are different names for different colors...I think. I love begonias but don't grow many. In fact, I think that if I had alot more space, I would probably grow both begonias and philodendrons, like the one pictured above. There are alot really gorgeous begonias, and alot of very interesting philodendrons, but one needs plenty of space for them - especially the phils.
Lin, some of my cane begonias are blooming but they hate our heat and wind....I just wait until fall they go nuts blooming in cool weather. I think they just survive our summers.
I can see why people in cooler climates don't have room for begonias and philos. Mine stay outside year around on the porch.
You can see that many are not happy campers right now.........
These are pathetic looking!
Just barely alive let alone bloom in 100+ temps and no rain at all..........
Yes, it is an Angel Wing Begonia ... I just forgot which one! ^_^
I have a couple of large Philodendron's too ... yes, some of them do take up a lot of space!
Gail, those plants look great to me! Is that first begonia the same as mine? Mine came as a cutting in a trade but I don't remember from who. It might be one you sent me!
Gosh, I know what you mean by the heat but we don't get quite as hot as y'all do in Texas!
We have had mid 90's the past few weeks with heat indexes @100-102 in some areas. Our high today was supposed to be 96 but I don't know if it ever got that hot .. I didn't stay out because it was so oppressive. I looked at the thermostat at noon today and it was already reading 93º. We've had bad storms every afternoon/evening and it's cooled down to 80 right now. This is waay early for us to have such heat, I dread August and September which are usually our hottest months. I look forward to fall, if there is going to be such a thing in the south. ^_^
Another large Philo ...
August and September are our hottest months, too...........I guess I shouldn't complain about the high winds everyday. They kill the plants but they keep us alive........smiling..........
I swear I don't know how some folks survive down here in the south without air conditioning! And, I know there are lots of folks who don't have it.
Lin,
I love your Phils. and that red flowered plant is gorgeous!!
Gail,
As a begonia grower myself,although I have recently gotten rid of most of them,your plants are far from pathetic!!
Don't forget everybody,even here in 5a it gets HOT.... LOL. It's been about 100 degrees and quite humid for the last two days.If we get the rain we are expecting tonight,Friday should only be 84 or so,and then back to the hot humid weather for a week or so!!
I have to water some plants every day and others wilt even when they are wet and then perk up overnight.
Lynn
Lynn, I have been watering every two days but rain water is what they crave.............
I didn't realize that Omaha got that hot and humid...........
It is long funny story and I won't tell it on DG, but I went to Omaha one time in college. I thought I was madly in love!! (LOL)
Yoo-Hoo!! Come on and tell the story Gail!!
I can't!! Let's just say that his parents didn't like me anymore than my parents liked him...........period! Romance was over when my grandfather came over to my house and asked him to leave my house immediately. ^_^
Lynn, I knew the midwest and other area's got heat and humidity in the summer time and sometimes it's MUCH worse than we experience here ... we have breezes from the Atlantic Ocean. My youngest sister lives in northwest Georgia and it is miserable there in the summertime. She says she's gotten used to it since she's been there 32 years. We grew up on the coast and I don't think I could get used to being land locked ... heat is much worse.
Well, speaking of getting out in that heat ... I better get busy and get the lawn mowed before it gets any hotter, it's almost 90 now. I should have begun yard work at 7 a.m. but didn't want to disturb the neighbors.
Lin
UH OH,so much for that romance!!
Lin,we don't always stay hot like this time,but our weather is very humid and that adds to the misery for me LOL. My DH loves it and will even play golf at 100 degrees.I stay home and turn on the AC.^_^
Well, I got the lawn mowed and yard work done! Came in and jumped in the shower, now I think I'm just gonna stay inside in the air conditioning the rest of the day, LOL.
Our really hot months of mid 90 temp's are usually July and August, but we have been having low and mid 90's since early May this year ... very unusual. I guess the weather is changing everywhere. I just hope it doesn't mean we will be getting real cold winters! If that ever happens I will be wanting to move to the islands, somewhere where there are nice ocean breezes all the time! The older I get the more the heat bothers me in the summer but I can't imagine living where it stays cold for more than a month. ^_^ Living in Florida for 42 years has made me a wimp!
here are a few daylily's that areblooming for me right now.
Forcast for NC tomorrow, 100 with 70% humidity!! I will be melting for sure.
Lin and Laura,very nice pictures!! I need to go out and take some,but it is sooo hot and humid.meag48,I will be melting with you ^_^......The way June has been I'm a little concerned about July and August!!
This heat wave is affecting so many areas around the country! Our high today is mid 90's and tomorrow is supposed to be 99º - breaking the record of 98º from 1944. With that awful humidity factored in the news is predicting "feel like" (heat indexes) of 105 and higher!
The beaches are crowded now that school is out for the summer. With ocean conditions and bad rip currents it's keeping the life guards busy ... they rescued 130 people from rips yesterday here in Daytona Beach. For comparison, the day before there were less than half that number of rescues.
It's pretty quiet out on the beach right now, guess folks are sleeping in since it's Saturday morning ... here's a current image from one of the local beach cam's: http://www.daytonavisit.com/beachcam2-db.htm Sure looks pretty in the morning ... my favorite time to be at the beach, when it's serene and quiet and not crowded!
plantlady, their arent too many places in southern NJ with such large buildings lining the beach, except maybe for Atlantic City. The rest is just shore homes along the dunes. Interesting to see what looks like a city right along the shore! I haven't spent much time on Florida's east coast, we usually went to the west coast - Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Bonita....you are so right about the beach being the best when there are no people!
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