H. carnosa 'Krimson Princess'

H. carnosa 'Krimson Queen'

You have quite the collection, I'd love to have as many indoor plants as you have!

Planto

H. archboldiana, which I affectionally call "Archie"...

H. australis ssp. tenuipes with its pretty bronze new foliage...

... it's a crazy bloomer in the fall...

H. callistrophylla...

...and it's flowers...

H. deykeae, one I wouldn't part with for $1000!...

H. fungii...

...and it's lovely flowers...

Tiny H. hueschkeliana and it's lantern-shaped flowers...

The very common incurvula or brevialata (whichever it is...)

...and it's sweet little flowers...

H. kerrii, in all its commonness (a word??), I still love it!...

... and those beautiful, drippy flowers...

H. lobbii...

My ever-popular macrophylla...

...and it's demure flowers...

H. meliflua blew me away with it's VERY variable flowers...

H. mitrata grows leaves stacked close together, like a cabbage...

H. sp. Nong Nooch...

H. pallida's very textured but fairly small leaves...

I love the H. pubicalyx cultivars for their very rich colored flowers... 'RHP'...

...'Pink Silver' flowers...

Oh, but look at 'PS' leaves!...

H. vanuatuensis' leaves are a little ho-hum, but I love the flowers...

H. verticillata's flowers are potently fragrant and it flowers frequently...

And this H. villosa I got a couple years ago in a trade and it went downhill, but it's still alive and I'm waiting for it to make a comeback...

I think I got carried away...

Denise in Omaha

Nice collection, you've got some lovely plants.

Planto,

Maybe only 2 NOW, but two of the very nicest & they look really healthy too. That's how it starts ;>)

OMG Denise how wonderful! Fabulous Plants & wonderful Pix. You've got some stuff I've never seen before, really jaw dropping like this Villosa, are those leaves 6-8" long?

I had some of that PS you shared, mine's on its last legs but I LOVED those leaves & their wonderful patterns (it got a bit overheated on a windowsill w/ radiator underneath, :<(
)

Don't recall seeing the all green Macrophylla before, I usually drool over the variegate, gosh Mitrata, the handsome Deykea, I want them ALL, it's just that simple! Pretty amazing. TFS!!!

(I did answer yr. EM, unclear if you got it.)

(PG) Karen

Mitzi

Yes, the villosa has very long leaves... I'd say about 6". I'm down to 1 leaf (**sniff-sniff**), but it's hanging on and otherwise seems fine. I'm watching it every day to look for signs of new growth as it could easily make its way into my top 10 favs if only it would grow!

I'll have to send you some more 'PS' - it's just too pretty not to have in your collection. Took a photo of a flower umbel this morning - they look almost petable with all that fur!

Denise in Omaha

Planto, two prettier pictures of those two cultivars couldn't be found. You captured them at just the right stage.

Denise, I don't think I've seen that picture of your australis before. That is magnificent. I would feel like I was in a cathedral if I had that hanging overhead.

as you can see I do not know how to re-size the photos sorry...and also I need some more cool and unique hoyas! Help me out!!!!

Denise in Omaha

Denise, the pictures of your fungii and australis spp. tenuipes never fail to impress me. I also love your pubicalyx pictures, just stunning! Vanuatuensis has some of the prettiest flowers of any Hoya I have ever seen, which is why it's on my wish list :-).

Great pictures, everyone!

Brad AKA Moonwolf

lacunosa ruby sue blooms in my mini greenhouse...

pubicalyx blooms...

h. fungii

my two mini greenhouses... i know the yellow one is horrible and keeps them pretty shaded, im going to be changing that as soon as i can...

inside yellow greenhouse...

inside clear greenhouse

closer up of inside clear greenhouse...

my hanging pot with a compacta and compacta varegata both in it... until they get bigger...

iris marie

KP

KQ

lacunosa ruby sue blooms

pubicalyx blooms

and this is my pubicalyx trio, only one of them am i sure of what type of pubicalyx it is... these is a pink silver, an all green one and a speckled one. they are all rooted and i have them planted in seperate drinking cups but together in the hanging basket for right now so i can save space. they can now easily be seperated when they need repotting and then will be repotted in seperate pots.

My kitchen window

that's my green Hydro H kerrii on the windowsill in its water inside a clay pot

Here it is more recently after I looped the top growth into a knot (loosely).

Suspected Australis someone gave me

Diversifolia from a friend

Some water growing H chouke from a swap last summer, lovely plant, very easy care (I've got some in mix too).

Another room, my Hydro varieg. H. kerii

H. pallida, interesting leaves & trailing habit

They can all be so different, something I really like about Hoyas.

Always a new wrinkle in the age old picture posting business. ;P

This monster is where mine came from. It is my aunt's plant. I'm not sure how old it is. It flowers every year though. Very happy plant. It's probably about 4 feet tall, but I am sure the vines are much longer than that

But everyone has such lovely plants. Way to Grow!

Susan

Amber, when I was at home last night, I could see your pictures again. But when I am at work, I cannot see them. I don't think it's the browser, as I am looking through google chrome and safari now and it isn't working on either. (It does take you right to the picture if you click on the little broken link icon, though.)

Alavone, I haven't had a chance to answer your question about the fragrance of autralis ssp. tenuipes - it's a very spicy-sweet fragrance, and when it's full of blooms like that, it smells marvelous in the house! I have a small greenhouse off my kitchen with a sliding door access. It sticks out about 7' from the house and it's 16' long, glass on 3 sides and roof glass. I keep a little over half my Hoyas in there, then the rest grow in windows in the house. I love the "jungle feel", so no matter how big a greenhouse I might have, I'd still want to be surrounded by plants in the house!

So this photo is of my H. aldrichii which is budding up. It budded up earlier in the spring, but I was fighting aphids and they literally chewed the bud to pieces. I find the only thing other than BATS that really gets rid of them is the alcohol spray, and if you do that to a bud, it just dries up and dies. Anyway, I treated aldrichii (and everything else the buggers seemed to like) with BATS and thank god the hideous things are gone and this will actually open at some point...

Denise in Omaha

Nice buds, but they need to be open for an ID, also shots showing the leaves would help.

FYI: the word is Carnosa, whether that's this ID or not, which I can't tell.

Hey Denise,

Interesting, unusual looking buds on your Aldrichi, should be interesting when it opens, must be exciting.

I bought it as cumingiana, but when I posted it's first blooms, there was some doubt about the id. I emailed the lady in Georgia for her opinion, but she gave me two different answers. So for now, I call it cumingiana.

And two close-ups.

Renee

What do you think the flowers smell like - and do you like the scent? My cumingiana is blooming right now too, and I can't say I care much for the way it smells. The flowers are beautiful, though. And I really like the way it grows - with its small leaves crammed tightly together along the vine.

Aggie, I too got this plant from Joni, I think it was three summers ago. It grows fast! Even more than it looks, cause I cut the winter growth off each spring. In winter, I can't give it the light level it wants, so the growth is not as nice. So I cut it off when the plant goes back outside in spring.

Klea - yeah the fragrance. I hate it. During the day it just smells yucky. At night, the scent changes, and it smells like rotten oranges or old shoes or something musty and rotten. I had it on my back patio yesterday after taking pics, then it sat there overnight. I stepped out there last night - and ohhh not nice.

Went back out to the back yard at first light this morning.

Renee

Susan

First, beautiful plants - kudos!!

I bought my first hoya today - KP I think. I was planning to transplant it into a container prettier than the boring green one it came in, but I notice in many (if not all) of these pictures, they've been left in their pots. I understand Hoyas like being kind of root bound - would you recommend I leave it in the plastic pot? Is there an advantage?

Thanks for the advice!

Laura

Feel free to repot your new Hoya. It does not need to be root bound. The main issue is that it is important not to overpot Hoyas because then they tend to sit in damp for too long. They need well-draining medium and an appropriately sized pot. If you take it out and it looks pretty pot bound then you can move it up one pot size (no more).

This is going to sound like it is in direct opposition to the statement above, but people prefer plastic pots because the plants don't dry out as fast and there's less chance of them getting too dry before you check on them again. This is more of a concern if you have a lot of plants and can't be watering them every couple days in the summer. :P

Congratulations on your new carnosa!

Here's a picture of my brevialta, which has both elongated AND round leaves. I will wait for the bloom to confirm it's really what the label indicates.

Now, guess what one I want, that I am ordering come spring?lol

Hint....Hi Denise:-)

Mike

:( :( :( I know this is the least. fun. answer. ever. and I sound like a broken record, but if its been 5 years and it hasn't bloomed, it probably wants more light. To me, the leaves look quite dark (maybe it's just the picture). They should be the color of young grass or a lime, for really good blooming. In my experience, if it's getting the light it needs, you shouldn't have to wait longer than a year for FULL non-stingy performance.

So, why isn't it getting enough light when you have it nestled nicely between light sources? I don't know! My mother grows her (currently non-blooming) carnosas right up against west and east windows and the leaves are flat as glass and dark as night. Not all east windows are equal. Some windows just don't get good light, what with trees and buildings and window dressings. I can't figure out what makes her windows so dim compared to mine, but the truth is revealed in the color, shape, and growth pattern of the plant.

I think a lot of time people go looking for a more complicated solution, like repotting or fertilizer, but carnosa is just not a very fussy Hoya, so I don't think that's the issue, unfortunately. If you're serious about blooms, you're going to fuss around with light exposure.

But maybe I'm wrong. I'm not the Good Will Hunting of the plant world anything. Good luck, either way! :)

-Robert

-Robert

Ok, coming here is how it became that I now owe over 20 Hoya.. I think you are going to be right behind me if you keep coming here:-)

Great to see you

Mike

Chelsea is kawaii! I think it blows Pothos out of the water, for brown-thumb friends who want some decorative looking greenery.