Pretty. I really like the way carnosas look when they're very old.

Hello~ I personally love 'The Hoya Handbook' for newbies and the newly revised 'World of Hoyas'. If you would like information on buying these books directly from the publisher, email me directly~ Take care~Gusterbunny

Go for it, Harrison. Joni is a great resource and a real sweetheart. Her plants are always healthy and pest-free in my experience, and more recently she's been trying to include multiple starts in a pot so that your odds are better if it's a delicate species and you get off to a bumpy start with it. This saved my tookus with waymaniae, I'll tell you. ^_~ Plus, she has a ton of really good ones in the August sale, imo. $10 is a steal for sure. You're not going to get it for less on ebay, at least not for plants of the relative rarity of most of her offerings. I think I got 25% of my plants during last year's summer sale.... jk (I think) :3 I prefer to avoid ebay, too, although it's a small world on there, hoya-wise, and if you have a question about a specific vendor on there, most of them are known to this group, so just ask. There are some sketchy ones, but there are also some solid gold ones there, like C Burton (thehoyan), David (dmichael619), and a handful of others I haven't ordered from personally, so I can't comment on. There are also a lot of threads devoted to the topic of vendors that you can find with a quick search. If you want to know more about SRQ, do a quick search for Joni (or follow my link below) and you'll see that the name pops up a lot around here. Also, you can see when Dee visited her, pictures and all! woohoo! Here is a link that might be useful: GardenWeb/Hoya/Joni

Mealybugs are VERY easy to treat, provided you keep a good treatment schedule. A bee friendly recipe: 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol to 2 cups water and a tablespoon of liquid dish soap (like Ivory...not a detergent like dawn), spray all over entire plant, let dry in a dark area (no bright light). Treat every 3 days for a week and a half, then once a week for 2 additional weeks, followed by once every two weeks for another month. If yours are indoor plants, feel free to use something like spinosad or a systemic like Bayer Advanced Tree and Shrub ( aka BATS- 3 to 4 tablespoons to a gallon of water), but please do take care in regards to runoff. When I have to use BATS, I water the plants, placing them on a special grate (hubby built it for me) that fits over a big rubbermaid tub. The water runs through the grate, into the tub. Once the plants' leaves have dried and the drainage has stopped, the plants are placed in my indoor greenhouse and the rubbermaid tub goes into my closed garage, where the systemic-filled water will eventually evaporate. This tub is ONLY used for the purpose of treating with BATS, so it won't ever be discarded, and no water with BATS is ever dumped down the drain or into groundwater.