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Now that I keep two of these plants, it seems that either one, or the other will be in bloom pretty regularly. Here is …

I had a post ready to schedule, until I realized it was almost Labour Day weekend. Who was going to waste time reading …

Hoya paradisea is a plant that I knew that I had to have the first time I saw the flowers. It is an aggressive grower t…

Hoya paradisea IM-04 on top and Hoya paradisea NS11-159 on the bottom: Hoya paradisea (IM-04) Hoya paradisea (NS11…

Here is a photo of NS11-159 after growing only for about one year. Note the substrate of mostly coconut husk chips with…

It took a few months longer to flower NS11-159 than to flower IM-04, but the blooms looked identical to me and behaved …

I discovered that there was two different clones of Hoya paradisea when my good friend Julie Kennedy sent me a cutting …

The buds opened into beautiful blooms with the distinctive fringe around the outer corolla. There was no detectable sce…

My plant grew a peduncle and budded up at only about six months of age. It seemed to be exceptionally easy to grow and …

Photo by Audrey Driscoll

I purchased a small plant from The Peace and Happiness Club, a plant vendor, in the summer of 2023. I was so excited to…

Hoya paradisea got its name from the diverse rainforests in which it is endemic, which are sometimes called Paradise fo…

“When not in flower, H. paradisea can be confused with many other New Guinean species with similar plain green, coriace…

“An epiphytic climber in lowland primary riverine forest, often growing near the ground or near streams on trees and sh…

In 2021 a variation of Hoya paradisea was discovered from the Mimika regency in Indonesian Papua province (Mt Timika ar…

Hoya paradisea was first discovered in 2011 by Nathalie Evelinadotter Simonsson and Fredrik Juhonewe in Papua New Guine…

I don’t know why it has taken me so long to discuss this fabulous species. Perhaps it is because there are two differen…

Occasionally I read a book that, quite apart from its quality as a “read,” is unusual in some way. Here are three that …

Hoya cinnamomifolia is now considered a synonym for Hoya macrophylla. Michele Rodda has published a recent paper (2025)…

I will end the comparison photos for now with a look at Hoya Almost Paula and Hoya stenaokei.

These two Hoyas literally never stop flowering so it is only appropriate that they get featured together.

First flowers on Hoya tannaensis after restarting only a couple of months ago. A very quick cutting to flower Hoya.����…

Love these two together! There are currently 12 peduncles with either flowers or developing buds on H. benchaii.

I don’t know if I’ve shown these two before or not, but this photo shows two things; one how small the umbel of flowers…

Another combination never featured here before. Hoya golamcoana is a shy bloomer for me and seldom flowers, but this we…

Mid-August, and even though there are hot days and warm nights, hints of change appear. Tired green leaves fall from th…

I don’t think that I have featured these two before, so here we are.

I think these two look especially good together!

Hoya ‘PaulShirleyi Seedling’ AKA Almost Paula just never stops blooming. Here is a quick photo that I took this morning…

This is the third time this summer that I have had Hoya patella grace me with 50-60 flowers at the same time.

Somewhere along the line I lost, or got rid of Hoya sp. GPS-7240, but a couple of years ago my good friend Wil gave me …

I took cuttings of this plant about a year ago and restarted it as a hanging basket. It has now started to reward me wi…

I have had this Hoya now for at least 7 or 8 years and it seems that every year that goes by, I like it more and more. …

Not long ago, I read a post by dark fantasy author Scott Austin Tirrell in which he described creating images of the ch…

Once again all good things must come to an end, so herein is the end of the discussion of this wonderful plant. I’m sup…

Here is a flower comparison photo of showing both of these beauties.