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Long Time Ago

He was a sodden mess when I found him. Although several of my hoyas came from big box stores, hoyas and big box stores are

She started off in a mesh plug. I didn’t yet know to check for mesh, and she wasn’t happy. I moved her to bark, found

We’ve had a long haul together this Hoya callistophylla and I. It was one of my first “fancy” hoyas, and one of the first hoyas

Maybe it’s because Spring is finally here, or at least it seems like it’s here. I live in southern New England and we could get

Once again. So, my first Hoya mirabilis ‘Clone B’ arrived in a jumbled mess of wet dirt and soggy newspaper. The seller apparently thought it

You’d think by now I would have learned to not decide on a hoya before I’ve grown that hoya. But then I don’t always listen

I thought it was a stupid name the first time I heard it, and with a ‘k’ no less, so I blithely ignored what has

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