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What A Small World We Live In Now

I was so surprised and gratified that one of my YouTube channel viewers from Australia named Kim sent me these wonderful photos of how she used my trellising idea for her own Hoyas. The fence she used is not quite the same, but she ingeniously made it work for her. Note how she used the branch to hang them from. I am so impressed! By the way, I still use this trellising method almost every day!

Hoya mirabilis Clone B – The Freshest Flowers

I just caught these flowers opening this morning. This plant seems to have picked up for me as I have struggled with it for some time. It has two of these peduncles full of flowers right now. If you have never seen these in real, they are really something. It is like H. lacunosa flowers on steroids.

The Waiting Room Of The Hoya Maternity Ward

It won’t be much longer on these seedpods. Here are my two prospective mothers hanging out together talking about the possibilities. There will be over a hundred seed in the multiflora pod, but based on my past experience, there will only be at most 15 seeds per pod on Hoya ruthiae.