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It has been a while since I had this many flowers on H. desvoeuxensis – So here you go!

In previous posts, I have noted that there don’t seem to be a lot of scientific studies about how adults read fiction. …

These flowers are just something that you don’t see every day. I’m always excited when this one decides to grace me w…

While it was a painful process in bringing Hoya ciliata to flower, I very happy that I had the opportunity to do it. …

Note that the dried flowers of Hoya ciliata stay on the plant long after they have gone by.

Foxgloves are beginning their bloom season in my garden. But guess what? Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), that easy yet e…

There was one millimetre of rain on May 14th. (That’s 1/25th of an inch.) It was the first rain since April 21st. There…

And now a series of flower comparison photos. It gets more difficult to fill this daily blog with material so this he…

The flowers are tough, leathery, and have no detectable scent. They drip very little nectar, but it is extremely thick…

I believe that If I had known just what the issue was with the bud drop, I could have flowered this plant at least a y…

In early January of this year (2026), I thought I watered the plant too much, and instead of putting it back inside of…

After those initial buds fell off, over the next several months the plant developed many more peduncles and the buds a…

We now move forward to the three year mark since I first received the cuttings. The plant that I started over a year …

The garden I write about and show photos of here was made from scratch in the 1990s. Its main features (apart from plan…

Around the two year mark, one of my potted specimens developed root rot and needed to be started over. I took several…

I once wrote a post that was more of an essay about why I would never try to grow Hoya lauterbachii. At the time, it h…

Mary Carroll was kind enough to send me two cuttings of Hoya ciliata in June of 2022. She took the cuttings May 15th …

The species name is a reference to the hairs on the margins and Elmer wrote in his classification of “cilia” on the se…

Hoya ciliata was first collected on Mindanao Island in the Philippines in 1909 by Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer. It was …

This plant has now been in flower for about a month so I guess it is time that to talk about my journey with my first …

When I first received a cutting of Hoya piestolepsis it took me 2 1/2 years to flower it, but for some weird reason, i…

All photos by Audrey Driscoll

Hoya piestolepsis meets the Hoya that I like to call Hoya Almost Paula.

Both of these Hoya species names start with the letter P. So here they are together in a comparison Photo. Hoya Peis…