Time goes by so quickly, and the older you get the faster it flies by. This is my annual lookback at the highlights of the previous year, so without further adieu, here are the high points of my 2024 year in Hoyas:

In January we spent many days talking about Hoya stenaokei (NS12-222) and followed up with my first flowering of Hoya benchai:

The high point of February/March was my first flowering of Hoya sp. IM-08:

In April, I spent some time talking about my experiences with Hoya leucantha and we got a spectacular looking amount of flowers on Hoya sp. Frog Foot:

May brought us the flowering of Hoya MB 1594 C:

Definitely the highlight of June was the flowering of the spectacular Hoya piestolepsis, which took a lot of effort on my part to make happen:

July brought a first time flowering in Hoya nabawanensis, and the flowering of an old friend in Hoya Kaimuki:

August brought me the first flowering of Hoya Seeds AH-138, a beautiful flowering of Hoya alagensis and my first flowering of Hoya aff. serpens (Xiaojie 001):

The Pinnacle of September would have been the flowering of the very difficult to grow and bloom Hoya-yvesrocheri:

Moving through September into October my choice for my most important flowering would be Hoya narcissiflora:

Moving into November finally getting a chance to bloom Hoya surisana was quite memorable:

There were no new Hoya flowering for the rest of 2024, but getting the flowering of Hoya maingayi after living on a windowsill in ambient conditions was a wonderful ending to 2024:

Thank you all for reading my 2024 year in review, and I wish all of you the best growing and happiest 2025 possible!

Tomorrow we will look back at a few of the highlights of 2024, I will leave you this year with a spectacular Hoya onychoides in full flower:

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.