garden club

Never be afraid to restart a plant if it looks a little lackluster or worn out. Hoya sp. UT-247 was started over as a c…

Hoya inflata at its peak of showiness.

It’s time for my grumpy self to make an appearance on the blog. There’s been too much positivity here lately. I usually…

There are actually five peduncles full of buds on this plant, but only three are visible in the photo. This is the star…

I have kept Hoya leticiae for quite a few years now, and started it over last winter. This is the first time that I hav…

It is time to say goodbye to Hoya narcissiflora for now, but I hope to have it around for a long time and bring it back…

The title says it all.

Here is a comparison photo of the flowers of Hoya narcissiflora and an umbel of Hoya sp. Surigao Del Sur blooms:

Here are a few macro photos that I took of the blooms:

Here is the first photo that I grabbed with my phone after most of the flowers were open:

Guess what this is about! A couple of years ago I noticed a different type of squash in my local produce store: red kur…

The flowers opened up over the course of three days. Here were the first that popped open. There was no detectable scen…

In the years since I first tried to grow the plant I had switched from a peat-based potting mix to a much more open sub…

I first attempted to grow Hoya narcissiflora back around 2018, or 2019 with very bad results. I could barely keep it al…

Hoya narcissiflora was named after the plant genus of Narcissus, which includes daffodils, because of the similarities …

Hoya narcissiflora was found in a solitary location in a lowland primary forest at 100-300 meters in elevation near San…

The original collector that posted photos to Facebook provided a live specimen to S. Rahayu, and M. Rodda. They publish…

Prologue. (I’ve never written a prologue for a blog post, and I’m sure it’s against some Rule of Blogging, but I’m doin…

Hoya narcissiflora was firstly seen for sale as an unidentified species at the Flora Show in Jakarta Indonesia in Octob…

I received this plant years ago from Julie Kennedy and it came with the name Hoya sp. aff. engleriana Vietnam. I’ve als…

I’m growing two of these to make sure that I never lose this plant. Here is the best specimen of the two:

Hoya platycaulis is a plant that is crying out to be grown in a hanging basket; I don’t know why it took me so long to …

I restarted Hoya decipulae and decided to try growing it as a hanging plant to see how it fared. So far so good!

I think that I brought you this one a little while ago, but it bears repeating that sometimes good things come to those…

Very few Hoyas made it outside this year. Other than having a slightly less expensive electricity bill, there is little…

After a couple of fall-like weeks, we’ve had a three-day heat wave, which has speeded up the ripening of tomatoes. This…

I just happened to see these the other day and thought I would take a quick photo. Sadly this plant is a pretty bad nec…

Hoya Raspberry Sun doesn’t know how to stop flowering. The only drawback of this plant is the copious amounts of nectar…

I remember how excited I was when I saw my first bud appear on Hoya stenophylla, and prayed it would make it to term. N…

Hoya yvesrocheri is a plant that not that many people have had a chance to flower. It is somewhat challenging to cultiv…

I’m sure most of you are happy that I’ve finally run out of Hoya-yvesrocheri comparison shots!

Another one that was flowering alone with Hoya-yvesrocheri so I’m taking advantage of it!

I think that these two look great together! Hoya oblongicutifolia does not have showy leaves, but I absolutely love the…

The other day I heard honking and looked up to see a flight of geese. It was a fairly large group, but not flying high …