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Nothing Fancy.

My grandmother grew African violets, lots of African violets. One of the big bay windows in that old house was full of them, all different

I don’t have much of a fungus gnat problem. But if you have plants, chances are you’ve got some of those annoying demon insects from

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