March 2023 – Planted In Rhode Island

Newbies.

Among the plants on my ever-changing wish list, a few hoyas had been there for a while. In March I decided to do something about

For a long time, they were my one-leaf wonders. Each one of the cuttings arrived with some roots and a single leaf. Hoya rigidifolia, H

It wasn’t ever on my wish list, but I decided that I was going to get one if I ever found one. Which I clearly

I know that the first day of spring was a few days ago. But what the calendar says and what is going on outside are

One by one they join the club, the who’s in bloom club. Sometime in the middle of February the first of the Phalaenopsis orchids start

If I wanted to entice an aroid person down the hoya rabbit hole, I would do it with a Hoya lacunosa. Just look at the

This was the first hoya I saw that I really wanted. I really wanted Hoya sigillatis when I first bought it. And when I second

Way back in the last century, when I was young, families would gather in front of a large, retractable screen to look at slides and

I think it’s safe to say that Hoya lacunosa has become my favorite species of hoya. I’ve got a lot of them, though it didn’t

Literally. I was at the big box ‘cause I needed a big pot. And it’s a rule that you can’t go to the plant section