This is a Hoya that is almost never out of flower, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what makes it happy. The foliage is chlorotic and just unbelievably ugly; the flowers only fully open in the morning for a couple of days and then close. I cannot really recommend this plant to anyone, but a completest collector.

Hoya erythrina nara is remarkable as to virtually never being out of flower. In my grow-tent the plant is virtually without care, and the only slightly negative thing that I can say about it is that the flowers drip a fair amount of nectar.

I am so sad that I went for over a decade without having a Hoya australis in my collection. It is among the most beautiful of Hoyas with fragrant blooms and lush, glossy, quick, growing foliage. The particular subsp. seem to bloom frequently as opposed to once a year. My plant is currently covered in flowers. Here is a sample:

Hoya rosarioae is an outstanding Hoya that I consider a must have. I had it upstairs on a cold windowsill most of the winter where it did not particularly like the conditions. After losing a number of leaves I found room for it in a grow-tent where it has gone insane with at least a dozen peduncles in bloom. Here are some buds from this morning:

Hoya hainanensis is budding up again, but this time on two peduncles! The leaves continue to astound me with their incredible color. I don’t think it shows to its best in photographs, but here is an attempt:

I always believed Hoya griffithii to be a fall bloomer, but this plant is proving me wrong as it has been producing flowers for quite some time now. It must love the artificial conditions under which it lives. This is a must own Hoya, that does best under the lights in a grow tent, but will survive in the regular house.

I have to say that Hoya celata flowering in the regular house with no added lighting or humidity does my heart good.  After waiting so long for this Hoya, all the way back to when it was called Hoya pubicalyx White Dragon, it is great to finally have a mature specimen that flowers often.  I don’t know if you can see it in the photo, but there is a hint of pink in the flowers that I have not seen before.  Probably the dark conditions under which it bloomed caused this color variation.

It will never be able to live in the regular house, but if you are looking for an exceptionally challenging Hoya with great flowers, and a divine fragrance, you need look no further than Hoya maxima Yellow Corona.

Here is a macro shot of Hoya maxima Yellow Corona:

They are really just great big teddy bears that have one of the most divine fragrances in the Hoya world.

My mount has both Hoya maxima Yellow Corona and Hoya maxima Red Corona intertwined so every time buds formed on various peduncles I was hoping that I was going to get the yellow flowers, but each time it was the red that showed up. I was looking for the yellow so that I could say that I had flowered both clones and finally it happened!