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Less than three months ago, I chopped up my large shrub-like Hoya stenophylla and started two hanging baskets. It proba…

Both of these beauties are flowering at the same time so I quickly grabbed this photo:

Picture this: you express an idea you are enthusiastic about to a significant other, a friend, or a colleague. Instead …

I don’t have anything bad to say about Hoya pulchra. The leaves get really red in high light, it is easy to cultivate, …

This image is my favorite Hoya pulchra flower comparison photo.

Really have to love these two together!

Hoya patella is almost always good to take flowers from as it is pretty much never out of bloom!

The title says pretty much everything.

I’ve noticed that the flowers on my Hoya pulchra seem much darker than the flower photos that I have seen online. It is…

Here are a couple of photos of the really unique flowers of Hoya pulchra close up:

The potted hellebores are doing well this year. They escaped the damaging combination of early budding followed by an A…

Here is a photo of the back of the flowers showing them off against the background of Hoya versteegii which sits below …

My plant is very young at this point with very few leaves so it is a long way from being a nice looking specimen. I am …

The plant flowered during the coldest point in my basement grow tents. The nighttime temps went down to around 55 degre…

The plant soldiered on and the vine grew a few more leaves so I up-potted it into a 9oz clear cup. Around 7 months afte…

Hoya pulchra came to me early last summer from my good friend Julie Kennedy from the UK. It spent a little too much tim…

Pulchra means handsome or beautiful.

“Hoya pulchra stands out among Hoya species by having very long peduncles and tooth-like corona lobes. The only other p…

A while ago, I complained about amaryllis (Hippeastrum) bulbs splitting. I mentioned that one of the six small bulbs of…

Hoya pulchra was discovered March 22, 2016 at 1,000 meters in elevation in De Leon. Mindanao, Bukidnon Province, Philip…

As soon as the day length begins just slightly increasing Hoya vangviengiensis starts flowering and will likely flower …

Photos can’t really show all of the flowers on this plant, but I estimate there are at least 60.

In the hundreds of Hoya patella flowers that I have had over the past 15+ years, I have never had one show this color b…

Mark Paxson has posted some thoughts about my recently published book, Winter Journeys. Thank you, Mark!

The fastest I had ever flowered imperialis from cuttings in the past was in 12-14 months; this one flowered in nine. An…

I chopped up and restarted my H. imperialis Rauschii at the end of May last year. I kept two cuttings and it looks like…

I started my large H. danumensis plant over last summer, and here are the first flowers on a much reduced plant:

I love words and phrases that lend themselves to metaphor. Like “breaking dormancy.” In gardening, the term refers to t…

I started Hoya versteegii over from cuttings about a year and a half ago. These are the first flowers of its reincarnat…

Hoya calycina ‘Stargazer’ decided to put on yet another show, budding up right after the last set of flowers fell off. …

I’m trying to capture this one in its best light, because it will not be long before I am forced to chop it up as it is…

Finally got all of the blooms to open on what has to be one of my most outstanding specimens. Tomorrow I will show the …

I know that I keep posting photos of these flowers, but the plant is completely covered in these amazing blooms so I ju…

The longer I keep this Hoya the more that I like it!

These flowers should be pretty spectacular when they all open up.

Once again, all good things must come to an end. If you are looking for a really cute Hoya that will never get too larg…

Just published! At summer’s end, Ilona Miller loses her job. Instead of adjusting her attitude and sending out resumes,…

My little Hoya microphylla plant looked so terrible in its little homemade pot that I was forced to slightly up-pot it …