I’ve been on a Hoya roll of late. There are plenty of other plants out there, and not everyone loves this genus. But recently my
Month: September 2022
Well mostly green, with edges that verge on purple. So for this plant it’s not about splash or variegation, it becomes about texture. He’s a
When I first saw Hoyas with leaves like those on Hoya flagellata I didn’t like them. They were too odd. They didn’t look like leaves.
Found him way overwatered, of course, in a big box store. It wasn’t one of my local stores, and I had a premonition, a plantmonition
When you first start trying to grow plants you figure you can grow anything. Then you suffer some casualties. You become less sure of success.
Sometimes when I’m thinking about my Hoya collection, I don’t think about my Hoya carnosa ‘Krimson Princes’; which is a shame really. Maybe because it’s
The tray was labeled “H carnosa”. I already had one of those, had a couple actually. But I gave it a look over anyway, just
There’s nothing jerky about this guy, even though he’s Aglaonema ‘Slim Jim’. At least that’s what I’ve kinda figured out. He came without tags from
When this orchid first arrived almost eight years ago, it was just a few green leaves. There was a handwritten tag that read “cattalaya”. A
No sooner do I post a video about the variegated one putting out a solid “white” vine, that the green one says “yeah, but look