About a year ago I wanted a large plant for my den, something leafy and tree like. My deliciosa was plugging along, but hadn’t reached
Year: 2022
I did and I didn’t, I did and I didn’t. I couldn’t make up my mind about Hoya deykeae. I’d never seen one in person,
It’s not the first time that my Hoya multiflora has bloomed in my care. It’s the second, actually. This bloom cycle, however, there are two
It was a plant I never expected to find, yet there it was in a big box store. I think I even wondered out loud
This Dischidia ovata is related to Hoya, cousins or something like that. This Dischidia is also my second try with this species, and we’re getting
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
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.