Hoya sp. Gunung Gading was looking particularly colorful this morning so I snapped a photo.

It could be because this is a fairly newly started plant, but it is flowering quite late. It is living in a kitchen window.

It was not long ago when this flowered; well it is doing it again in the dark. I applied a couple of effects to make it more interesting, because if you have seen one Hoya hamiltoniorum photo, you’ve seen them all.

Not a very glamorous photo, but shows a little of the work involved in watering my plants. I have four days a week devoted to watering and plant care right now. Every pot has to be examined, dunked for 30 seconds to 15 minutes in a nutrient solution and drained. Here you can see H. stenaokei in the foreground, and various hanging baskets to the back. I don’t believe that I will have than many plants to care for at this time next year, at least that is my hope!

Here is one of the two plants I ended up with after having to restart my Hoya thomsonii late last summer.

It is really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that another Christmas is upon us. There is definitely a lot of truth in the old adage that says the older you get the fast time goes by. I want to take this opportunity once again to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it and happy holidays to those who don’t.

I like this plant a little more than its look alike H. apoda. The Hoya that I received as evelinae has larger leaves, and it flowers at a more reasonable pace, and its blooms drip far less nectar.

I never found out for sure if this plant was truly H. evelinae or not, but I ordered it under that name and that is how it arrived. Tomorrow I show the entire plant.

I really believe that Hoya desvoeuxensis that is one of these Hoyas similar to Hoya megalaster in that will literally flower itself to death trying to get pollinated. This is one of two plants that I have, the other was featured last week also with too many flowers.

I received this Hoya as a cutting from Christine Burton at least a dozen years ago, back when she was selling on eBay. It came as a bonus with a small Hoya albiflora plant. The only thing that I have remaining from that transaction is this clone of nummularioides that has thicker leaves and is more succulent than the regular version that was sold in box stores for a number of years. It has always seemed to be a much more reluctant bloomer than the more common clone. Anyhow this year it is putting on a show. I’m glad that I have kept it around all this time as a reminder of everything that the late Ms. Burton contributed to the genus Hoya.