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These were both flowering at the same time, so I feel lucky to have been able to photograph them together. Liddleana on…

When I read this post on Fiction Fan’s blog yesterday, I knew I had to share it. In a far future… So, I was asking Copi…

Here is a photo of the showing the entire plant after it flowered the first time; note how much smaller the leaves are …

Hoya liddleana flowered for the first time with three blooms in January and has flowered four times since then. In natu…

Within a few months I had moved the plant up to a 4 inch clear orchid pot with holes keeping the same mix. I noticed th…

The only Hoya in the Macgillivrayi Complex that I had yet to flower was Hoya liddleana, and that was because I had yet …

Don’t worry; the ghost is a plant. Eryngium giganteum is a striking, prickly plant that adds an element of surprise to …

Hoya liddleana Is named for the Liddle’s of Mareeba Australia. David Liddle was and amateur plant scientist and collect…

From the type description: “ Similar to the widespread (yet endemic to New Guinea) Hoya onychoides because both species…

Hoya liddleana (Accession Number NS08-100) was discovered in Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, Alotau, trail toward…

Tomorrow I will begin discussing Hoya liddleana; here is a teaser photo of the flowers:

A quick photo after the plant gets showed on the front step this morning.

I took this one outside to spray off the dust with a hose a took a photo of it drying off on the step. It has gotten qu…

I’ve grown, or should say struggled with this particular Hoya now for a decade, having acquired it in 2015. Quite frank…

H. microphylla loves life in the grow tent; it is never out of flower, or bud, and has just given me a new record of si…

I thought I had figured out Hoya maingayi. Every time it has flowered it has been because the day length has been short…

I have had some great floral displays on Hoya patella over the years, but this one has out shown them all. I think I ha…

It seems like I have put up dozens of these photos over the years, but what can you do when your plant just won’t stop …

Have you ever wished you could travel back in time and see how things were at different points in the past? How did peo…

Here is Hoya leucantha with Hoya undulata. It is funny sometimes how yellow the flowers will get on undulata when most …

I had to make the most of this peduncle of flowers that I cut off from Hoya leucantha so I had to make the rounds.

I think the title says it all, and their colors match!

I have to give a shout out to Hoya pulchra, which seems to almost never be out of flower. I also want to say that this …

I really have become a huge fan of Hoya leucantha which lives pretty happily in a hanging pot in the kitchen. Here is a…

This Hoya mostly gets overlooked because of how easy it is to cultivate, but it has so much going for it. It is never o…

I was thrilled to see a recent thoughtful review by Laura Lyndhurst of my recently published novel, Winter Journeys. Wo…

I think these two different flowers look very nice together. I believe that this may be a first in the world photo.����…

I can’t really explain why I still have this plant when so many others have gone by the wayside, but for some reason it…

This Hoya continues to flower abundantly sitting on the windowsill in our living room. After taking this photo, I attac…

I took a short break from the blog in June to do some other things. It began just before the foxgloves started fading. …

Today is my final day with Hoya piestolepsis for this year unless it unexpectedly decides to flower again. The downside…

Here is my attempt to take a photo of this wonderful plant outside. You can easily see how I grow all of my plants in c…

Here is another Hoya that I never figured would do well living in ambient conditions on a windowsill and here you have …

I started this plant over in the spring, because of root rot, and surprisingly one of the starts immediately put on a p…

These types of Philippine Hoyas are such nectar drippers that sometimes it is just easier to cut off the buds than to d…

I don’t get many shots of these flowers fully open; they are short-lived, and are half closed up during the day. I happ…