There is so much promise in Hoya flower buds!  Here are two photos of H. archboldiana x onychoides buds taken five days apart.  This plant really likes the heat and the humidity of the plant room.  The new leaves are a beautiful red color, and these buds came out of no where.  It is easy to see that this plant is very happy.

I just ponied up for the paid version of Clustrmaps Visit Counter.  You can now click on your continent and get a much enlarged map and view of where you are.  It also does away with all advertisements.  I am still very gratified with all of the visits that this site has generated; it has exceeded all of my expectations!

Here is a very nice cultivar of Hoya lacunosa called Royal Flush.  The foliage gets a lovely bronze color, and it blooms profusely in my plant room.  I received the plant from a very nice woman in Florida in a round robin.

Here is a photo of a Hoya imperialis corona.  It was taken almost at a 1:1 ratio, but not quite.  I also discovered something new last night – Hoya imperialis blooms do indeed have a scent.  I had put the bloom that I had cut off into a vase in our small bathroom to see how long it would last as a cut flower.  When I went into the bathroom later, I could smell a lightly spicy scent with just a hint of mint, and sure enough it was coming from the flower.  Although my imperialis has bloomed many times before, I had never smelled any fragrance.  I’m wondering if the conditions were not humid enough for it to produce a scent.  Anyhow I now know that it has a very unusual fragrance that is quite lovely.

I took these shots quickly last night.  It is a most amazing plant!

Hoyas don’t bloom all of the time so you need to be able to appreciate their foliage.  I would grow these plants even if they never bloomed. Here are a few plants on a pink background in honor of tomorrow being Valentines Day.

Here is H. kanyakumariana photographed on a violet background.  Plant is 27″ (68.5cm) high.  I started it from a cutting 4 years ago.

I can’t resist!  One more photo of H. elliptica on a pink background.

Since Valentines Day is in a couple of days – Hoya elliptica for your enjoyment.

Some have you may have noticed that I have installed a Clustrmap Hit Counter (It can be seen in the lower right-hand sidebar).  This little widget has to be one of the coolest features ever thought of for a website!  If you click on it, you can see yourself, and where you are located.  I am completely blown away that in the past 10 days, I have had over 350 visits to this site from every corner of the globe – 44 different countries and counting!  I am very gratified that there is this much interest in what I thought was a fairly obscure plant.  I want to thank everyone who visits here, and finds something to comeback for.  If nothing else, I hope that my enthusiasm for growing Hoyas, no matter where you live, or what language you speak, comes through loud and clear!