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This one took a few weeks to acclimate, but it is now happily flowering away in ambient conditions on the windowsill. T…

All good things must come to an end, and so we bid farewell to Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 for now. While I have n…

The big drawback to Hoya apoda/evelinae is that the flowers, which at times can cover the plant drip nectar like crazy.…

I never tire of Hoya patella, this is one Hoya though that must have high humidity to do well. I have tried this one in…

Hoya thomsonii Pink went years without flowering, but now it has been budding up and flowering for months on end with n…

I had three different flushes of flowers this past winter on Stargazer; so here it is with Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis:����…

I don’t know how many times these have been photographed together, but this is a first for me.

They were flowering at the same time so why not?

Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis and Hoya desvoeuxensis have similar sized flowers so here they are together:

It did not take very long for Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 to pick up steam with its flowering. After my fist singl…

Here are photos of all of the strains of Hoya vitiensis with yellow on top, mauve in the middle and orange on the botto…

Here is a photo of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 showing what the plant looks like in its entirety.

The flowers of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 are at least 50% bigger than on any of the other H. vitiensis that I ha…

The leaves on Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 have an extremely hard and glossy surface to them. If they didn’t have t…

The only problem I had with the cultivation of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 is that there was a tendency for some o…

I was a little apprehensive about growing this plant as I have had a tricky time growing the regular mauve flowered vit…

But not sleepy, despite the opium poppy in the photo. This isn’t a true Silent Sunday post, since I’m obviously saying …

I know very little about this Hoya other than Nathalie Simonsson discovered it in Fiji in 2005. It came to me as a root…

I’m trying to decide what to do with this one. It drops sticky nectar covered flowers all over the floor, and it really…

I have two small H. imperialis rather than one large one in my collection, and the plants seem to alternate flowering. …

This crop of flowers is the most that I have had at one time on Hoya medusa. Still not much of a plant, but I’m not giv…

This plant has now gotten huge; It is my favorite of all the different Hoya Bella that I have cultivated over the years…

I really don’t understand this one; it is only supposed to flower in the fall, it is not supposed to bloom under lights…

This plant has put on such an amazing floral display this year.

Here is a book by a fellow resident of Vancouver Island. I’m happy to make it part of my occasional series of Local Aut…

I grabbed these two umbels and took a quick photo this morning. The entire plant is covered with flowers right now, and…

I showed you the flowers the other day; here is the entire plant. It is the only plant in my collection that came direc…

I truly love this plant; it gets these large, gorgeous leaves, flowers with scented flowers in the spring, and lives ha…

I didn’t used to care for the smell that the flowers put out on this one, but I think that its kind of grown on me. I q…

I will have many more photos to come of what should be a spectacular flowering specimen of this H. serpens look alike. …

Hoya stenaokei just won’t stop blooming no matter what I do. I’m wondering if this kind of continual flowering happens …

This Hoya that came to me as Hoya sp. Sarawak Pink is obviously a latifolia. These latifolia have the most annoying cha…

The common or purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is yet another of the quasi-weedy plants that grow well in my garden…