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I made this Halloween Hoya video now 12 years ago; I thought I would bring it back out of the vault. In it you can see …

I don’t know why I have never tried growing this Hoya as a hanging basket before, but I am going to give it a try now. …

Orange pumpkins grinned on porches, plastic skeletons reclined on lawns, fusillades of pops and bangs rattled in the di…

I used to keep a number of different Dischidia as they were such close relatives of the Hoya. Now I only keep one, and …

Hoya hamiltoniorum is another one of those Hoyas that I just thought would never do well in ambient household condition…

I’ve only been growing Hoya surisana now for about 4 or 5 months so I don’t have that much to say about its likes and d…

Here is my last comparison photo using Hoya surisana for now. I should take this opportunity to say that the flowers ha…

I’m afraid that in a beauty contest Hoya desvoeuxensis puts Hoya surisana to shame!

Both of these were flowering at the same time; so why not?

Here is a comparison photo of Hoya surisana and Hoya undulata:

Here is another unaltered photo of the blooms from Hoya surisana. I will tell you that cleaning these photos up digital…

Finally towards the end of September the buds actually began opening. It took a three days for the flowers all to fully…

I was excited to see what I thought was the buds opening one morning only to realize that what I thought was the coroll…

The title may be overly dramatic, because Victoria BC is famous for its mild climate with many plants blooming into win…

I started to get more confident with this Hoya after the new leaves began greening up. After having the plant for about…

One of the odd things that I noticed about growing this plant was that when a new set of leaves come in they are so pal…

I received a well rooted four leaf specimen that arrived growing in Pon. I knew that I was not going to continue using …

I first tried to grow what I thought was Hoya surisana in 2023 only to find out that I received an incorrectly labeled …

Once again, the folks at Shepherd have invited readers to select three favourite books read between October 1st, 2023 a…

Hoya surisana has very unusual flowers with long calyx lobes that extend beyond the corolla lobes. I have only experien…

Hoya surisana was named after Surisa Somadee, Thai Hoya expert and grower. Below the flowers of Hoya surisana:

Hoya surisana was found growing in a pine forest on a steep slope. It was rooted in the ground with long vines ascendin…

I‘ve said here several times that for me the toughest part of writing a novel is turning my ideas and intentions into a…

Hoya surisana was first vouchered in cultivation in August of 2019 at the Bogor Botanic Garden. It was first collected …

My Hoya Bella Anneke Buis, otherwise known as Hoya Bella Albomarginata looks pretty healthy from this picture, but has …

I would estimate that 90% of the time Hoya patella has only one flower per peduncle, but occasionally it gets two. This…

I think that I have featured these two together before, but here is a new photo of the two plants flowering at the same…

The flowers opened on the Hoya undulata that I put up here about a week ago. Here they are in all their glory:

I have kept this one for a long time, but after up-potting this one in the spring, it has become the nicest plant. It m…

Even with no flowers Hoya stenaokei ‘Dark Clone’ makes a fantastic specimen.

A while ago, I read a post on Susan Rushton’s blog about the gardens at Great Dixter in England. It impressed me greatl…

This plant was started over about a year ago, and will flower for the first time since the restart in the next couple o…

I restarted this plant only a few months ago from some really lousy looking cuttings that I rooted and inserted into a …

A closer look at the flowers of Hoya benchai from yesterday:

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It took me so many years to flower this one for the first time, and now it simply won’t stop. It has not been out of bl…

It took a little while to establish, but after only three months from taking cuttings, I have this nice little specimen…