garden club

In the past few weeks, I have taken up Amazon’s offer to make my books available in audio format using “Virtual Voices”…

I think that Hoya surisana looks its best in the bud stage of the flowers. After they open, nectar drips on everything …

I took a few cuttings and started this plant over, but I hung the remainder outside for most of the summer, and I was s…

A peduncle of H. maingayi blooms with a single H. paradisea flower.

I had to grab a picture of these two together while I had the chance!

Both of these plants are in full out flowering mode so I thought I would take this snapshot of them as a couple.

Hoya maingayi is still flowering sitting on the windowsill so I grabbed this photo on watering day.

This summer produced a good crop of Black Hungarian peppers. They start out green, then turn black, and finally a brill…

Here is a photo this morning of Hoya liddleana with six flowers, which is the most that I have gotten to bloom at once …

I only started this one over from cuttings this past spring, and it already looks like this. I took this photo before m…

Hoya undulata flowers almost continually; Here is what it looks like this morning:

Hoya paradisea falls into the category of plants that flower too much. Its continuous output of blooms gets to the poin…

Here is a thought-provoking post from indie author C Litka. I’m going to say it up front. Publishing is a business. A v…

It is still very early days with this Hoya; it looks to be a very easy grower and bloomer. There is already a second pe…

It is almost time to give Hoya cupula another haircut as it just grows too rampantly in the basement grow tent.

I kind of like these two together!

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This plant originally came from Carol Noel in Hawaii in 2006, back when she was actively selling plants. I think it mig…

Hoya undulata just blooms and blooms in the extraordinary humidity of my basement grow tent.

My Unidentified species Hoya formerly known as aff. solaniflora looks much better than when I first flowered it, but it…

Hoya microstemma is such a cute little Hoya that is almost never out of bloom. I don’t pay much attention to it, becaus…

Hoya benchaii made up for all the years I tried to get it to flower by producing hundreds of flowers over the past 18 m…

I told myself I was going to get rid of Hoya platycaulis over the summer, but here we are in October, and I still have …

I was fortunate enough to have both of these flowering at the same time.

The Grumpy Contrarian has returned! I saw this post recently: Why You Should Be Cautious With Beat Sheets by September …

Since I don’t have much else going on I will present another long set of Hoya flower comparison photos. We start with H…

Here is a photo showing what Hoya chloroleuca looks like after growing it from a one node rooted plant to what it looks…

Having seen so many close-up photos of the blooms of Hoya chloroleuca, I had no idea of the actual size of the flowers.…

All I could do was to wait until it flowered to find out if what I purchased was really Hoya chloroleuca. Fortunately I…

The plant grew well right out of the gate requiring a couple of up-pottings before it settled into a five inch clear or…

For the heck of it, I checked Etsy looking for the plant, and to my shock one popped up for sale. It was small, with on…

Those of you that know me realize that I don’t have much of a presence on Facebook. I only check it out about once a we…

Two plants that were especially photo-worthy this past week. First, my rather feeble (because it’s on its own roots, no…

Hoya chloroleuca gets its name from chloro meaning green, and leuca meaning white probably referring to the white corol…

According to Bolang Plant Nursery in Indonesia, this plant was lost for over one hundred years after Schlechter first c…

Hoya chloroleuca was found on trees in the woods of the Torricelli Mountains, in Papua New Guinea, at an altitude of 80…

Hoya chloroleuca was discovered September 22, 1909 by Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter in Papua New Guinea.