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I received a small cutting of Hoya microstemma (NS11-145) from Julie Kennedy in May of 2024. The cutting was rooted but…

This particular clone of Hoya microstemma was collected by Nathalie Simonsson in 2011 in the Western Province of Papua …

Hoya microstemma was collected on September 14, 1909 by Rudolf Schlechter in what was originally called German New Guin…

Hoya sp. IM-08 Is A Small Miracle; it has been flowering with zero sun through some of the shortest days of the year. H…

I have grown a large number of the campanulate flowered Hoyas, and of all the species, and subspecies that I have culti…

I have restarted Hoya leucantha many times in the relatively short time that I have had it. Three times I have had 3 fo…

January is the month when Chinese witch hazels (Hamamalis mollis) bloom in fortunate places with mild winters. I stoppe…

First of all this plant likes it on the cooler side. My basement tents for several reasons have become much cooler than…

I have kept Hoya calycina ‘Stargazer’ for at least a dozen years now. It came from my good friend Julie Kennedy from Sc…

This plant literally just won’t stop flowering ever, and I can’t seem to stop myself from photographing it!

If you can find the dark flowered form of Hoya stenaokei, I urge you to pick one up. The growth is much more easily con…

This will be my last flower comparison photo for at least a little while.

These two make a handsome pairing!

The title says it all!

Winter Journeys is a story about the power of music and imagination. In 1827, a year before his death, composer Franz S…

Both of these plants are in the Macgillivrayi Complex; here is a flower comparison; take note in the huge differences i…

A recent change in how WordPress displays blog posts has had an effect of how I interact with people who visit my blog.…

I took the time this past October on an exceptionally warm day to bring the plant outside to photograph it. It was the …

Besides the lack of pubescence, and the much slower growth habit of the dark flowered H. stenaokei clone, here are the …

Finally after about 1 year, both plants put on their first peduncle and I was lucky enough to get to see them flower at…

I did not even know for sure if the glabrous leafed cutting was really stenaokei, or not and I was prepared for a long …

I received various chopped up barely rooted cuttings of plants labeled Hoya stenaokei in May of 2022 from Indonesia in …

As near as I can discern from a little online research, the dark flowered form of Hoya stenaokei was discovered on a 20…

Something I read recently reminded me of a book called The Lost Words by British nature writer Robert Macfarlane, illus…

My massive Hoya stenaokei (NS12-222) has started a new phase of flowering. There are buds all over the plant here are t…

I don’t have much more to say about Hoya cumingiana (Albo Outer Variegated), other than it is very easy to grow, and qu…

Before I got this plant to flower, I lost a few leaves and others were stunted. I suspected mite damage of some kind an…

I like the bone white corollas of this wonderful looking plant.

The regular version of this plant has much more highly scented flowers than the variegated version. Below more flowers …

From what I have heard many of these variegated Hoya are much harder to flower than the original nonvariegated species,…

I rooted this plant in coconut husk with a little perlite thrown in using a clear 3 inch cup. It readily rooted and it …

Back in 2020 I wrote a series of posts about my writing and publishing experiences. In the final post of the series, I …

Here is a plant that was never on my radar until I received a cutting as a gift from the very kind folks at Let’s Talk …

When I took this plant out of the tent the other day to photograph the flowers, I happened to notice that some of its l…

I put these plants together for a video I shot; here is the still photo from that day in December:

I have an occasional custom of taking a photo of the sunrise on New Year’s Day. It began with some nice pink sunrises l…

Time goes by so quickly, and the older you get the faster it flies by. This is my annual lookback at the highlights of …