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This Mike Benardo Hybrid has only one negative aspect and that is that the flowers produce too much nectar, which after…

There is no finer example of a Hoya with green flowers than Hoya sp UT-033. It has happily enough spent two years growi…

I finally got tired of trying to care for this plant that had grown much too large to easily handle any longer. It prod…

My potted tulips have finished blooming for this year. Now I need to maintain the plants until they go into summer dorm…

Hoya solaniflora has been flowering without a break for over 2 months now. The back of this plant which can’t be shown …

It is literally impossible to keep some of these Hoya from flowering.

The days are getting longer so many of the Hoyas living on the windowsills are starting to flower. This one is very fra…

I’m delighted to be part of a blog tour for a new book by Jan Sikes. Thank you, Audrey, for allowing me to take over yo…

What is even more remarkable is that it does this in with no artificial aids living in a window.

Last week I published a post about buying several books that turned out to consist of unedited AI-generated text. I com…

With every passing day, I am getting more confident that I will finally get this species to flower. If it happens, It w…

I needed to restart this one because cold and wet let to root rot. Also I wanted to get a fuller plant and try it in a …

Today I end my discussion of Hoya solaniflora. This fragrant, blue-flowered, beauty gets my highest recommendation for …

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Two fragrant PNG beauties in the hand!

I love these two together!

The title says everything that needs saying here.

I will now show a few Hoya flower comparison photos. Here is the first featuring a floriferous Hoya pulleana:

I did not realize until flowering it, that it is not the easiest Hoya to grow or to bloom judging from what I have read…

I have been trying to find a Hoya flower that has shades of blue for years now. I have spent an incredible amount of ti…

The flowers opened slowly at first one or two at a time, and I was afraid at first that I would not get the chance to g…

At Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week Sale in early March, I bought six ebooks. Actually bought them, for $2US each. They w…

I won’t lie to you, this plant looked so bad, for so long, I toyed with the idea of getting rid of it, but I hung on, a…

I was incredibly fortunate in that both of the cuttings manage to root in water. I potted then both in coco husk chips …

Hoya solaniflora is in the top five Hoyas that I came close to losing early on. I received this plant as a rooted cutti…

The solaniflora name means flowers that look like a Solanum, or the nightshade family. If you have ever looked closely …