Thanks all for the compliments on my cuttings. I promise you it was sheer dumb luck they grew as I have no clue what I am doing and at times I'm sure they suffered from just that exact right combination of benign neglect! I have learned recently not to cut off spent flowers! Ooops - that is standard practice in the non-hoya arena! It is exciting to get all these names and I promise to write them down and put a stick in each plant! Wow - I have lots of guesses and some concensus too. I will copy all of the names and look for links and photos. Thanks for the ID on the variegated macrophylla and I'll check out the other. hills, you might be correct on the Wayetti. The one in the gentleman's photo has more color but that could be due to growing conditions, but the leaf shape and habit are the same. Your link provided me a name on another hanging basket hoya I didn't post a photo. His H. curtisii (Thailand "larger leaf") is a dead ringer for a large hanging plant I keep at my kitchen sink window. It has never bloomed. Pirate girl - I don't know about shipping now as it is cold where I live right now too. I'm in MD. We had our first snow a few days ago! If you send an email I'll reply with my new email address, so we are set with a firm address/email so I can send you the cuttings in spring. That email I left won't be around for too much longer though as I am getting rid of it (it's dial up for crying out loud:-) Thanks again folks - what a great start point for enhancing my searches. Hoyas are tough to ID! Oh, wanted to ask again - any good Hoya books out there? I have looked and looked to no avail. It's seems a shame that such great plants don't have a book to themselves that also has tons of color photographs (my favorite type plant books). CT

Good Morning :) WHEW!!! I am so pooped out with all of the fun things I have been doing lately~~~I really live a boring, quiet life, but lately WHEW!!!! My DD and I had a great time in Santa Barbara at her swim meet~~~ages 18-80!! Seeing the older gals in swim suits and having so much fun and looking so healthy is really inspiring!! They all have such good body image, in the dressing rooms walking around in different stages of their nakeness, not sure I feel that good about my body:( I want to tho:) My weigh in was good, I am down another 1.2 pounds?? How can that be?? I ate so off the program last week with my visitors and all:( I did eat breakfast and lunch good, and when we whipped out the snacks I never ate like I would have before WW's:) As I was driving away from my meeting I was thinking WOW how much junk and extra calories I must have been eating in the last few years to be carrying so much extra weight!!! I am down 22.5 pounds YAHOOO!!! I feel so great!! Down about 4-5 more pounds than I even planned on:) AND the best part is I do not even feel like I have been dieting, just eating healthy!! I just hope I can keep it up:) Since I do not feel hungy or deprived of any foods I think I should be able too eh??? I have two vacations planned one at the end of July with my DH going up to Tahoe~~~two days after we get back from there my DD and I are leaving for a world swim meet in Palo Alto Cali @ Stanford U~~~we will be there for 4days and 3nights then on to San Francisco for 3nights:) That my diet friends will be the big test!! If I get through all of those days eating out and all of the temptations of vacationing I will know forsure I have made a lifestyle change:) I did not make it to CRUVES at all last week, except to weigh in, my pre weigh in before going to WW's for my weigh in LOL!!! But, I was walking and running around everyday so I guess that has to count. I will get back on track tomorrow:)

Oh! Yeah, I think so...fingers crossed. I haven't stared too closely at the leaves lately, but I don't see any glaring yellow splotches like I did with that first group -- it was on the P. incarnata. The plant(s) is/are thriving right now; and if I had to start plucking leaves off, it'd be an overwhelming task. I'm certain the Turk's Cap plant I received from my neighborhood friend's yard was affected by this same virus, as it had the telltale splotchiness AND horribly deformed, crinkled leaves -- and it just got worse and worse, so I yanked it.

Thanks. The asparagus concept is interesting. I have asparagus growing in my veggie garden. I asked my husband to do a close comparison and he thinks it may be. I still cannot get to the garden with my broken foot, but when I do I will take a much closer look. If an asparagus bed has popped up there, I'll be happy to cultivate it. I agree that the leaves on the first one do look like coneflower but I do not think it is due to the size. The leaves are about 6 inches wide and the whole plant is about 2 to 2 1/2 feet wide, with no center stem. At first sight I thought it was a hosta, but upon closer examination it did not seem so. The leaves are very dark green and has some purple coloring. I have coneflowers and it is not quite the same.