My original H. danumensis had gotten to large to properly care for so I chopped it all up this spring and started a number of cuttings. I sold the best of them and I saved the two worst looking ones for myself and put them in a large pot with coconut husk, and it has already flowered! It took me forever to flower this plant originally and now it flowered in only a few months. The moral of the story is to never be afraid to restart a plant from cuttings!

I probably won’t have this plant featured again in a while, or unless it exceeds more than four peduncles full of flowers, which is probably pretty unlikely.

I pulled the plant out of the grow tent yesterday to try to record for posterity all of its flowers.

Hoya desvoeuxensis is rarely out of flower and now I can hold a bloom up against a plant that is rarely in flower – Hoya inflata.

When I first got Hoya inflata about 10 years ago, I managed to grow a decent looking plant, and flowered it a number of times. Then for years, I struggled with it, and barely could get it to grow a leaf. It has been started over numerous times, and quite frankly I am surprised that I still have it. That was then, but I started it over again this spring, and for some inexplicable reason it is growing better than it has since very first plant. I have two specimens now growing leaves all over the place and one of them just flowered.

Currently Hoya versteegii has four peduncles with open flowers. This is a very poor photograph, which I am going to try to remedy tomorrow by taking it outside to take better pictures, but if I can’t, this is better than nothing I guess.

All of my H. sp. Haruku plants in the past have had much smaller leaves, because they were expose to too much light. This plant hangs in a North window and the leaves are almost twice as large and much nicer to look at in my opinion. This plant is grown in 100% coconut husk chips. Here is a photo after I gave it a shower this morning. The photo does not do the plant justice!

My friend Bob from Ohio recently sent me photos of his Hoya vitellinoides that he grew from a cutting that I personally gave him from my plant. You would hardly know that they are the same plant as they look so radically different. The top photo is my plant from a couple of years ago, and the bottom two photos are of the exact same plant grown under Bob’s conditions.

There is a lot of research that could be done on just exactly what are the differences that produce such distinctive plants from the exact same cutting. There is a movement among plant scientists currently to lump many heretofore separate species into a single species. The conditions under which a plant is grown could have a lot to do with why they originally were thought to be different species, but are in fact the same plant.

The negatives of this huge Sugar Maple in the back yard has finally outweighed the benefits so it is slated for removal in the next few weeks. So photos of Hoyas hanging in this tree that I have taken over the years will no longer be possible. This photo of Hoya Bella Albomarginata is a great way to go out!

Hoya Bella Albomarginata other wise Known as Anneke Buis is in full out flowering mode. It is so spectacular, that I will devote two days to it!