This is the coolest photo that I have taken in some time. I have never caught the flowers on Hoya benchaii before they have fully reflexed before, but I just happened to see this and grabbed a quick photo.

I decided to take the time and take some decent photos of the flowers rather than quick snapshots with my phone.

Since flowering Hoya hamiltoniorum does not happen everyday, we will take another couple of days to appreciate the plant. The fact that it has flowered on a window sill in ambient conditions is just icing on the cake!

Slow morning here at Vermont Hoyas, so both of these were flowering at the same time…

I believe that Hoya calystophylla that I bought from Carol Noel back when she was actively selling Hoyas is the Hoya that I have actually owned the longest. It has been restarted a few times, but for some reason I still have managed to hang on to it. Here it is flowering in my tent this morning:

Hoya sp. UT-033 flowers for the first time since I restarted it about 18 months ago. Notice the two oddities; there is one flower with four coronal lobes and one that I have never seen before; a flower with three coronal lobes!

I made this Halloween Hoya video now 12 years ago; I thought I would bring it back out of the vault. In it you can see the six foot cumingiana that I lit up with Halloween lights, and a H. pachyclada time lapse video. Anyhow, it was a blast from the past, and fun to take a look at for the first time in a long time.

I don’t know why I have never tried growing this Hoya as a hanging basket before, but I am going to give it a try now. So far so good, and it flowered on its first attempt!

I used to keep a number of different Dischidia as they were such close relatives of the Hoya. Now I only keep one, and it is one that I’ve kept for a very long time. It makes the easiest to grow houseplant that I have ever kept. It is also known as the Million Hearts Plant, and makes a stunning hanging basket. Here is a photo from yesterday showing all of the little flowers, which are barely visible.

Hoya hamiltoniorum is another one of those Hoyas that I just thought would never do well in ambient household conditions. Well, here we are and the plant has not only done well, but it is now covered with buds and will soon flower. We now also know for sure that this is another Hoya that only wants to flower when the day length is decreasing.