First plant looks like garlic mustard - very invasive, non-native plant.

Second is def some type of fennel, not sure of the type tho. Salt was dead on the poke weed. Hate the stuff myself! My Granma used to eat it. Careful with the berries as they will stain...even after birds eat them.

The Hopi Red Amaranthus definitely looks like it. Thank you so much. No, the plant is not mine. There's a whole patch of them growing in a yard a few blocks down where I walk my dogs every morning and they're very impressive. I want to try to get a plant or two for my yard. Thanks again.

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