garden club

I’ve probably had Hoya calycina ‘Stargazer’ for 15 years now. It is not one of the easiest to grow plants, but I have k…

Winter is said to be the garden’s resting season. It’s true that not much goes on after the leaves have fallen, but her…

I didn’t take in many new Hoyas in 2025, but the few that I did provided me with a lot of pleasure. Hoya pulleana is an…

Just like with the H. hamiltoniorum comparison photo, but flowers are very close to the same size.

I love this comparison photo showing how close in size both of these Hoya blooms are.

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This is an interesting comparison; Hoya pulleana was formerly known under the accession number IM-02, and the leaves ar…

Both of these were flowering at the same time so what the heck?

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So much variation in Hoya flower types!

Two of my 2025 additions flowering at the same time!

In just a couple of months since the first flowering, look how many more flowers there are on the plant. Also the growt…

Here is an early photo of H. pulleana showing the entire plant:

After receiving and restarting the plant in February, it only took until November to get peduncles that budded up and b…

It seemed to take forever but I finally got those little pulleana cuttings to take root. At first they took forever to …

I participated in a Bay Area Hoya get together in January of this year, and the organizers asked me if there were any H…

Hoya pulleana was named after the collector of the type specimen of this species, August Adriaan Pulle (1878 –1955), a …

Hoya pulleana is only known from two localities in the southern part of Indonesia’s Papua province, near Sungai Unir an…

Hoya pulleana was first collected, vouchered, and or published March 24, 1913 by August Adriaan Pulle.

I would guess this is the world’s first photo of a peduncle full of H. pulleana blooms with a H. yvesrockeri bloom plac…

These two make a great looking couple. This Hoya darwinii is blooming in the rooting stage. It was taken from the prop …

I’ve really come to love this easy care, fast growing Hoya. Especially the fact that it can live in ambient conditions …

Tomorrow will be the last comparison photo with Hoya yvesrocheri, and I will introduce the next new species we will tal…

I love the photo of H. yvesrocheri nestled inside a peduncle of H. benchaii flowers.

Title says it all – notice the bead of nectar on the H. tannaensis flower. Nectar dripping is the only negative to this…

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An odd pairing, but both in flower at the same time so what the heck!

I rarely get to see flowers on H. yresrocheri so I will make the best of it over the next couple of days.

I’m trying to simplify life for the last few weeks of the year. That means taking a break from writing new posts here u…

For more than two years, Hoya inflata has never been out of flower or bud. The plant never grows or puts on a leaf, but…

Below is a photo of Hoya sp. UT-247 that I took this morning. There are many Philippine Hoyas that are similar to this …

It is odd that for me the variegated polyneura grew so much more easily than the regular version. It seems to be pretty…

Hoya hamiltoniorum is another plant that responds to the shortening photoperiod of autumn. H. hamiltoniorum is on the r…

Along with Hoya linearis, the most reliable autumn bloomers are these two Hoyas.

The buds on the leaves that lacked chlorophyll finally opened and the answer to what they looked like was revealed. The…

Final week (plus one day) and wrap-up. The month is finished, but the writing is just getting started. There’s a long w…