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We will end September with Hoya maingayi and Hoya chloroleuca, which is a first time bloomer for me that we will begin …

Here is a photo I took this morning of the small amount of the plant with a peduncle of flowers that has not been cut o…

I think these two look great together!

This post isn’t about cooking, fun at the beach, or fraud. It’s about reading, in which to skim is to move the eyes qui…

Here I also cut off a peduncle of flowers to take the photo. Hoya insularis probably has about 100 peduncles so I don’t…

Once again the title tells all!

I have to make the most of cutting off that peduncle of flowers so bear with me!

The title says it all!

Here is a peduncle full of Hoya maingayi flowers sitting on a bed of Inner variegated Hoya Bell:

I always wanted to see these two presented together and now I finally have the chance. If you look very closely, Hoya c…

Hoya maingayi flowers are difficult to photograph because of the plants short peduncles and propensity to hang downward…

Spent and rusty, Achillea heads mingle with lavender-coloured asters and tired foliage of hellebores and geranium “Ann …

Other than both of these plants being endemic to the Philippines, they don’t seem to have much in common.

Hoya sp. aff. solaniflora (Species Unknown) is a real mouth full; I’ve got to come up with a slightly shorter name! Any…

Hoya darwinii is now considered a synonym of Hoya mitrata, but it is still hard for me to call it by that name when the…

I have two 6×8 Sunshine Greenhouses that I am no longer using for growing Hoyas outside in the summer time. There are t…

I chopped up all of my Frog Foot and sold around 20 plants on eBay this past summer. I kept a couple of cuttings for my…

I hated to do it, especially when in full flower, but I think that I can get a much better looking specimen by putting …

I’ve just gotten my best floral display with Hoya medusa so to celebrate, I will spend a couple of days with it. This p…

After a seriously horticultural post last week, I thought I would turn to something of broader interest. That’s not eas…

I’ve run out of things to say about this wonderful species Hoya, but I will end my discussion by giving this one my hig…

I think that I forgot to show you the buds of this plant; the flowers last 3-4 days before closing up and falling off.�…

This easy to grow Hoya can make a spectacular specimen in only a few months.

Here is a close up of the blooms of Hoya sp. Bengkulu (Rindu Rafflesia), there is no detectable scent to my nose. The f…

The plant flowered for the first time in less than eight months, and has rarely been out of bloom since.

This is a plant that I have found to be dead easy to grow, at least in my basement grow tent, It went through a couple …

I received Hoya sp. Bengkulu (Rindu Rafflesia) as a cutting from my good friend, Julie Kennedy, who lives in the UK, in…

My answer to that question: it depends. Just because a plant is native to a region, it isn’t always the best choice for…

I researched the area that this Hoya lives and it is exceptionally warm and humid. Every month of the year the daytime …

I’ve found this plant listed as Hoya sp. Bengkulu, Hoya Rindu Rafflesia, and Hoya sp. DD001.

Hoya sp. Bengkulu (Rindu Rafflesia) is native to Bengkulu Province of Indonesia, located on the Southwest coast of Suma…

This plant has not been out of flower or bud now in well over a year. This morning I took it out of the tent and took a…

It took me a long time to flower Hoya sp. IM-08 when I got my first cutting of it back in 2022. I recently decided to r…

I have not had a nice specimen of Hoya chinghungensis since I restarted my large prize winning specimen a few years ago…