Oh, I have other favorites as well - a couple of passifloras, a couple of orchids, but my favorite at the moment since it's also the newest non-hoya is the dischidia vidalii! It's considered an "ant plant" as it forms these cool "pockets" where in a natural setting ants would live. Plus it has adorable little flowers and supposedly stays in bloom most of the time.
I don't have a picture of it by itself, but I'll post a link to a picture.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dischidia vidalii

Looks very cool Kelly.

I actually thought of you this morning when I was watering my plants. I remembered your recent post of this ant plant and darwinii (sp) and I saw an ant in a plastic saucer for one of my hoyas. Funny huh.

shanna

Beautiful Schlum!

My pride & joy is my Rhipsalis cereuscula. It is much larger than this picture now. I also love my Rhipsalis micrantha. I can't find a picture of it at the moment though.

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I love orchids & desert roses but I can't post too many photos because my computer button is broke.

Ok, Like everything that has anything to do with plants I can't pick just one so here are my top favorites for now.
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Lipstick - pink Thai

Hatiora Rosea

Schlumbergera Stephanie

Schlumbergera - UNK

Shanna, Your xmas cactus looks like the older variety Buckleyii which is rather hard to come by.
Do you know what color it is. I have several small starts from differant people but I think they are all pink.
I've heard there is also a red and would dearly love to find one.
Jo

Great Christmas Cactus, mine is much smaller. Some of my favorites, Green Cascade a Cymbidium in a hanging basket. Medinilla magnifica, love the flowers on this one. I finally rooted a cutting of the mother plant but it took all summer and Clivia miniata Citrina, I grew this from seed it bloomed for the first time almost five years to the day I planted it. The only one I have a picture of is the Clivia.
Annette

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Jo
Don't worry I don't think there's anybody than can pick just one plant.
Haven't heard of Buckleyii I really don't know much about them but I love the bloom. I am not sure what the color is, it bloomed last year and now I can't remember, I can try to remember when it blooms to post a picture. Your plants are amazing I really like your Schlumbergera - UNK. Beautiful!!! I love the pot too.

Pretty flower Annette .

Shanna try googling Buckleyi, that should get you a lot of pictures.
Jo

Shanna check out this site.
http://cactus.biology.dal.ca/paulS/christmas/christmas.html

Hey Jo,
I read that article. By the sound of it, it sounds hard to grow but I treat it like my hoyas. I do have it in a 14" self watering pot I fill the bottom saucer once a week when watering my hoyas. The soil it is in is reg. soil with a little pearlite mixed in if I remember correctly. I don't see the soil much since it is up so high and I water from the bottom. I hope the hook I have in a stud on the wall doesn't come out. I can't imagine the damage it would cause. I am tempted to go get a stand of some type (very tall) and just use the hook for a future hoya.

shanna

Probably my favorite non-Hoya is Dischidia ovata...

...or maybe it's D. oiantha variegata that had so much white growth this year...

Nice Christmas cactus, ladies! I've had a few over the years, but the one I had when I lived in CA bloomed constantly - it was the old red variety.

Denise in Omaha

my fav non hoya would be my golden pothos It is the only plant left that Larry bought for me before he died.

Ks-girl,
I would say it is a hybrid, buckleyii has less of a claw than Shanna's does. My new favorite I got today is Philo selloum "Gold Satin". I payed about 1/6 of the price asiatic sells it for!

1hmkc-
Oh, I love golden pothos as well! So glad this one is doing well for you since it obviously holds memories for you.

Kelly

Oh, Mentha,
I just looked up the Gold Satin! Beautiful! Love the pic on Asiaticas site of the Hammerhead Gold, too!
Kelly

Wow, how can you even choose faves? I never can. I guess my fave groups of plants are palms, orchids and aroids. I like hoyas, but they aren't my faves by a long shot.

These are some of my faves that I grow:

Rare entire leaf (undivided leaves) palm, Salacca magnifica. It is found naturally only in Borneo, where it grows at the base of cliffs in very moist locales in the rainforest. My largest leaf at present is about 10 feet; mature, they will be 20 feet, going straight up from the base at ground level. Very architectural, stunning in habitat.

I love aroids with large leaves that have a little "something extra" like variegation or cool colorations, like this Alocasia "Purple Prince" I have growing out in the yard

I love variegated monstera. I have managed to collect 4 plants and planted them in various sopts to climb up the walls

This is one of my favorite trees, Erythina indica variegated, also called the "Sunshine Tree". It just glows and makes the entire area light up

I love small understory palms that put out new leaves that are highly colored, like this Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus

I guess of all theorchids, Bulbophyllums and Cirrhopetalums are my fave group, because they have such bizarre blooms

Bahai, I always love seeing your green house.

Cindy

Hi Shanna!
Just to whet your whistle, here are a few pics for you. The more I look at these, the more I want to keep them. I may have to get them out the door quickly. You may be getting one sooner than in a week. I'm fighting the urge to go back, they had about 7 or 8 different varieties of arrowhead vines, which is not something to get with winter coming soon.

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And since I'm here, these are the two kerriis which I'm not sure about. Yep, I'm lazy, so sue me :) It sure is quiet, without DH & kids. I hope I can survive the weekend without them. PS You wouldn't want to throw in a couple cuttings of the schlum would you?

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bihai...oh my gosh...beautiful! I love it. Im in ohio so not much of that around here! I have an alocasia in my apt,and it's doing wonderful, though not as huge as yours, it has about 14 leaves and brightens the whole place up! Thats probably one of my favorite. I dont have too many plants because I dont have a house, but I will definitely be upping my collection once I am in a house! I hope my yard will look like a jungle someday!!

bihai, I love all your exotic plants. I wish I had a greenhouse for my plants. I've run out of room. My favorite would have to be this clivia, grown from seed.
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I made the mistake of planting it in the front yard, in what I thought was shade. The sun moved further north in the early summer and I lost most of it. I have three leaves left. The sun has moved south now, and it's in the shade. I hope it survives.
Another favorite is my yellow plumeria. This was a rescued plant from a neighbor 18 years ago. It was a solitary stick in a pot. No leaves on it. The lady thought it was dead, and was throwing it out. I took it and the following spring it bloomed. The rest is history. I've shared this plant with many, many folks here on gardenweb thru the years.
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Right now I have six of them around the screen enclosure of the pool, and one out in the front of the house.
I have some orchids that are favorites, but have to update the new pictures. That will be for another day. LOL

Mentha,

"You wouldn't want to throw in a couple cuttings of the schlum would you?"

Sorry mentha I'm confused what schlum are you talking about?

shanna

I take great pride in my many collections, up coming in show spectacular is the Cymbidium bloom season!
Dr. Pepper and a NoID cym that bloom at the same time.

Gorgeous pictures everybody!! Thanks for sharing...I like succulents(Jades), lipstick plants, Thanksgiving Cactus and of course my Desert Rose. I love so many different plants, its hard to pick just one, lol.

Thanks for all the lovely pictures