garden club

There was a Hoya circulating as H. solaniflora for a number of years that was not the true plant. Nathalie Simonsson co…

Hoya solaniflora was found at 1200 meters, Northeastern New Guinea, in the forests of the Finisterre mountains.

Hoya solaniflora was discovered by Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter September 6, 1908 in Papua New Guinea.

The Greigii tulips called “Serano” bloomed in February. The Triumph tulips I planted with them, which are called “Silve…

There won’t be a lot of new bloomers for me this year; tomorrow I begin the discussion of one of them. Until then here …

I counted 19 separate peduncles with buds or flowers on this one. It was difficult for me to photograph this one proper…

I love this plant so much that here is another photo using an orange pot this time. It took me about six years to achie…

It is really hard to fully appreciated this one unless it is seen in person, but here is my best attempt.

H. ciliata, the Eriostemma Section Hoya, is beginning to look more and more like at least some of its buds might make i…

It was about this time last year when Hoya carmelae decided to flower up a storm, it looks like it will exhibit the sam…

It is funny how a plant can move from the category of dead easy to grow to quite troublesome to grow. I can only hypoth…

A book I read recently: Hope: The Story of a Possible Future by Suzanne Elise. HOPE is a sweeping, visionary novel set …

My best guess is that they won’t make it to term. I have lost at least 200 buds and probably many more than that on Hoy…

I love this plant; it took a 2-3 month hiatus from flowering, but looks like it is ready to go back to it.

I’ve had to start over close to 25% of my Hoyas during this extremely cold winter. Hoya paradisea really struggled with…

I believe this plant is now called Hoya pubicorolla, but I purchased it many years ago now from Joanie Kahn of SRQ Hoya…

I liked yesterday’s pen and ink so much that I made another one. Here is Hoya onychoides taken last week:

I’m not that big a fan of AI, but there is a new feature in Google Photos that allows you to turn a photo into a pen an…

For my next dried Hoya flower project, I’ve chosen Hoya imperialis. I will be back with the results in 2-3 weeks!

I hoped to have a book-related post for today, but there has been too much going on (pruning, among other things), so t…

Here are the dried flowers of Hoya stenaokei, and on the bottom a dried specimen of Hoya buntokensis.

On the left, Hoya stenaokei (NS12-222), and on the right the Indonesian clone with a darker, different shaped corolla, …

The past two days I shared the dried specimens of the dark version of Hoya stenaokei. Today I show the dried version of…

Here is a size comparison between a quarter and the dried flowers to give you a visual of the size of the blooms after …

Here is the result of my attempt to dry the blooms of the dark version of Hoya stenaokei. Below the photo of the dried …

Sitting on a cold windowsill in a spare bedroom, Hoya fungi x Hoya pubicalyx RHP opens her first flowers of the spring …

It has been so very cold in my grow tents this winter that many plants had to be restarted from cuttings. So far Hoya o…

I don’t think I have ever had tulips in full bloom in February (which is when the featured image photo and the one belo…

Here is a new flower comparison photo with one flower in the batch that I have yet to discuss. That would be H. solanif…

Here is another plant that surprised me completely that it has not only survived, but is flowering on the window sill w…

Here is my final image of Hoya stenaokei growing in extremely low humidity and thriving on the windowsill.

A guest post on Anne R. Allen’s blog by Jeremy Esekow of Storywise. A few months ago, my company, Storywise, ran a writ…

The buds are gradually giving way to a huge floral display.

Here is the second photo in my series of what is possible with no grow tent:

Since there is little going on I am going to post a different photo of Hoya stenaokei each day for the next few as the …

Here are a couple of photos inside one of my tents after every single Hoya has been sprayed with garden sulfur at the r…

I’ve posted photos similar to these almost every spring, but I can’t resist taking new ones. So here are this year’s pu…