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Luring Them In.

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

What’s not to love about a hoya with fuzzy little leaves? Add to that an oval shape, and the result makes me think of fuzzy

I have a thing for small leafed hoyas; maybe because you can get a lot of plants, and a lot of leaves, in a small

This winter’s been rather mild here in southern New England. At my house there hasn’t been snow you could measure until the other day, and

At last, the sleeper has awakened. He was a tiny, little thing when he arrived here last May. Rooted, yes, but he had only a

This isn’t my first Dischidia ovata. It isn’t my second. It’s number three. The first two were sad casualties to the learning curve. And it