Hey Brad, I hope that the lacunosa cuttings root for you soon and that Tootsie will bloom for you ! I have 2 blooms on my carnosa about 3 days from opening. Unlike you, we here in Florida are still in mid-summer, 90's are our average temps until sometime in October, so I am green with envy about your temps. Although I am sorry that this causes problems for you who summer their plants outside.

And I was going to give you one more week before I started bugging you for there names ! Pics will do for now, though. : )

poseidon

Hi poseidon,

Congrats on your carnosa blooms! Well, I'm gonna send you some of our cool temps your way! There's no danger of any f-r-o-s-t yet so I'm glad about that (I have seeds I have to save from my flowers in the garden).

lol Well I have some names jotted down, but I don't know which plants to assign them to (not just hoyas either). I have mistletoe, rick rack, seaweed, Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti, a spider plant jades and other succulents to name. Here are some for you:

Aja
Shana
Kimber
Raya
Riff Raff (thinking of giving this one to the spider plant)
Rose
Blanche
Dorothy
Sophia

Now my best friend has gotten me to watch Scrubs, so now I'm thinking of naming some of my plants after some of those characters.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Hey Brad,
Sounds like everyone is doing well there. That's very good. :) I'm so glad to hear you've gotten them all safely inside away from the frost. We've had one day of frost. But I'm not lugging everything in and out, in and back out again, only to do it over and over until it snows. Just not worth the headaches! :D Far too many dang pots to do that! And I just don't want to trip over a Dane and Heeler while doing it either. :P

I bought yet another hoya. It's tag said bilobata/tsangii, of course it's an EA. So I knew it was most likely tagged wrong. However, I -knew- without a doubt it was one I didn't have just by looking at it. So, 12 bucks later, a big hanging pot of DS-70 now hangs in a southern window. :P

I'll be gone for a week but I know none will need much care while I'm gone. I have a humidifier in the room where most of the plants are. :) And may have more hoyas to boot when I come back!

~Tina

Brad,

We had one night of frost - seems so soon - but luckily, I had hauled most everything inside already but for an epiphyllum and spider plant. They managed to escape unscathed although I forgot to cover my basil and lost it.

Tina, have a wonderful time, relish the heat, and happy hoya hunting!

Lisa

We are still a few degrees above frost but I have lugged all my plants back inside.
Some of my African bulbs go out each day as they need to be slowly forced into dormancy, some are maturing seeds so they need all the light they can get.
The more tropical plants are all back inside and I am busy trying to organize the Stapeliads and make sure they don't have any bugs before putting them near the other plants.

Why is it that I buy more plants each year so that when it comes time to bring everything in there is nowhere to put the old ones? I guess it's a bit of out with the old and in with the new.

Mike

I have brought in most of them except for carnosa and Serpens. Hoya Serpens absolutely loves the cold temps, she has tiny little leaves growing like crazy.

Tina, congrats on getting another hoya! We have had no dangers of frost yet but very cool temps are encroaching upon us and it sounds like you and Lisa had the worst of it! Have a fun time! Hopefully you'll find some more hoyas!

Lisa, sorry to hear about the basil. Glad to hear the epi and spider plant survived too. A few plants I have outside under the little porch are still alive. Then again, most of them are ones that like the cold.

Mike, I too, am facing that problem. What gardener doesn't? LOL

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Thanks Lisa & Brad, I will try to enjoy the warmth, if I don't get drug all over hill & dale by family. LoL I'll take pictures too, of whatever catches my eyes. ;) Chat with you all when I get back!

~Tina