garden club

Tomorrow we will look back at a few of the highlights of 2024, I will leave you this year with a spectacular Hoya onych…

Hoya sp. Gunung Gading was looking particularly colorful this morning so I snapped a photo.

It could be because this is a fairly newly started plant, but it is flowering quite late. It is living in a kitchen win…

On a whim, the other day I decided to listen to the audiobook version of my novel She Who Comes Forth, which I publishe…

It was not long ago when this flowered; well it is doing it again in the dark. I applied a couple of effects to make it…

Not a very glamorous photo, but shows a little of the work involved in watering my plants. I have four days a week devo…

Here is one of the two plants I ended up with after having to restart my Hoya thomsonii late last summer.

It is really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that another Christmas is upon us. There is definitely a lot o…

I like this plant a little more than its look alike H. apoda. The Hoya that I received as evelinae has larger leaves, a…

To fellow writers, readers, and everyone who visits this blog, I hope the next week is happy, merry, peaceful, joyous, …

I never found out for sure if this plant was truly H. evelinae or not, but I ordered it under that name and that is how…

I really believe that Hoya desvoeuxensis that is one of these Hoyas similar to Hoya megalaster in that will literally f…

I received this Hoya as a cutting from Christine Burton at least a dozen years ago, back when she was selling on eBay. …

Who has seen the Milky Way? Not in a photo or on a screen, but the actual conglomeration of stars sprawled across the s…

Top Row Left To Right: H. platycaulis, H. sp. Frog Foot, H. nabawanensis Bottom Row Left To Right: H. chinghungensis, …

Top Row Left To Right: Hoya platycaulis, Hoya sp. Frog Foot. Hoya tannaensis Bottom Row Left To Right: H. chinghungens…

Top Row Left To Right: H. platycaulis, H. sp. Frog Foot Bottom Row Left To Right: H. chinghungensis, H. callistophylla…

From Left To Right: H. chinghungensis, H. callistophylla, H. thomsonii, H. desvoeuxensis, H. undulata

From Left To Right: H. chinghungensis, H. callistophylla, H. thomsonii, H. desvoeuxensis

I felt a little pang of remorse for cutting off the peduncle of H. thomsonii blooms, but there are quite a few more. No…

I don’t think these have appeared together before.

I have a lot of stuff blooming at the moment, but nothing new, and I don’t have much to say about anything so I am goin…

My idea to try Hoya danumensis ssp. Amari as a hanging basket is bearing dividends. It is thriving and now has two pedu…

I just can’t recommend this Hoya strongly enough; search one out now and make it your own!

There are absolutely no negatives to owning Hoya sp. IM-08, and is an absolute must have Hoya. This Hoya now deserves a…

I’ve participated in the three special sales at the Smashwords Store almost every year since 2010: Read an Ebook Week i…

When I first stated that Hoya sp. IM-08 was my favorite small-leafed Hoya, I was growing it in a tent thinking that it …

Its been about a year since I proclaimed Hoya sp. IM-08 my favorite small-leafed Hoya; does this statement still stand?…

In a recent post about asemic writing, I hinted that I intended to experiment with such writing using my left hand. My …

I took Hoya desvoeuxensis outside in very late October when the temperatures broke records and got into the upper 70s. …

There are actually even more, but I did not count the buds that were only 1/8″ in size.

Tomorrow I will bring you Hoya inflata with a record number of flowers.

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I think that these two look great together! Notice a new set of buds forming on onychoides right behind the flowers. Th…

Next few days are devoted to Hoya flower comparison photos.

This H. onychoides highly surprised me when it budded up on a windowsill in our bedroom. I never noticed the buds until…

Every year, I tell myself there’s no need to take more pictures of the Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum), but almost…

The flowers and buds of Hoya sp. Frog Foot are so glass-like that it can’t be captured in a photograph.