Pirate Karen, Thank you! The sun was just at the right angle, so I quick snapped the picture. I think I was shaking at the time, didn't want the flowers to fall off before getting the shot, lol Sara, Be careful, you might get sore knees, lol. Ok, so far there isn't any scent:>( Not even at night. Does anyone know if this one has a scent??? It was a little disappointed there wasn't any, but I still enjoy the flowers just the same.It's funny, because the same thing happened with my rubra, no scent either! I even had someone else tell me there was no scent, so I know it's not a faulty nose! My hindu is just getting ready to flower, hope those flowers have a scent! Denise, This hoya actually has two (peduncles) hope I'm saying that right. I thought it was just the one, then saw a smaller one coming. Maybe another time there will be a few more (hope hope) It gets "some" southern exposure and fertilized with a pinch of the powdered Miracle Gro dissolved each week in a 5 qt watering can, soil completely dries out between waterings.Maybe it's the higher light that helped it flower, not sure. I hope you all see flowers soon! Billy Rae

Well, I still have a bunch of Aerangis modesta growing on in there. The mounted ones are doing quite well. The potted ones have almost all bit the dust. I would've mounted them all but I ran out of supplies and haven't gotten more. The recently unflasked guys are Aerangis mystacidii and Neofinetia falcata 'Shu Ten Nou'. They are so cute. I really really wanted Aerangis punctata but wasn't able to reserve a flask in time. I am crazy and requested a reservation of a Cattleya luteola flask as well! Hopefully it won't come ready for a while now, I need some breathing room. I'm more worried about insects than disease. My first terrarium, which houses my very lovely Aerangis kirkii, acquired bush snails somewhere along the way and I Can't. Get. Rid. Of. Them. I hate them so much. It also effectively means I cannot add to that terrarium, or move anything in there to another, because I dare not spread the snails around. It frustrates me enough that I want to just start over and scrap that one, but Aerangis kirkii is not the easiest to come by, and mine has done a lot of growing and is turning into quite the specimen, as long as I keep up with it. Plus there are a few other nice specimens in there (like Pleurothallis grobyi and Chaemangis hariotiana), which are more easily replaceable, but I don't want to have to. Hey, so far the hoyas that are in the big terrarium are behaving quite nicely. They have not been attacking the orchids or taking over their space. Everyone is getting along. In fact, the hoyas in there get watered quite regularly because I have to check on the mounted orchids almost daily. Resolution shmesolution... I feel like half the time when one makes a resolution, you are daring yourself to do the opposite. Or maybe that's just me :)

Hoyas versus Hostas: A comparative analysis SUMMARY: Hosta people are nice; stand on roofs a lot. lol Mike. I'm fond of hostas, too and it made me laugh when I toured the forum and discovered that almost everyone in it is from my part of the world. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa were all the main players, in contrast to this forum, which is much more evenly represented. (Hoya forum does seem to be a little weighted toward members from warmer climates... although this perception might just be my EXTREME jealousy of people posting pictures of their plants joyfully hugging trees) This is all pretty natural, considering zone 4ers are rather limited in what will flourish between the winters and the aggressive deer. So, it might be a case of finding the beauty in your hand of cards rather than a preference for green over purple. On the other hand, I'd rather like to have pictures of people's plant collections right next to pictures of their homes and wardrobes, because I've started imagining the homes of hosta lovers as painted in overlapping neutral tones of green and gray and their closets full of brown and black. Your comment about a hosta-dominated garden did get me thinking. The hosta lovers certainly do not perceive a garden full of hostas to be monotonous - they appear to find the differences among their collections quite striking! In fact, the majority of their gardens posted appear to be just that sort of garden: a ruffled ocean of greens and creams. And that's probably fair because I do recall reading a post today about sp. Sarawak GPS 10073 where everyone here got *VERY* excited about lavender ^_~. It may be that in 10 years, my no-longer-n00b eyes will start to find the more subtle markers of hoya species much more poignant and I'll be able to jump into debates about snowcap versus royal flush. (You guys are so cool when you do that, btw). And then the hosta people will point at me and laugh. The main difference I noticed between the hostalytes versus the hoyalytes is that it's... June... and they're already complaining about their plants starting to go downhill for the season. One of the many joys of hoyas is that although they may slow down at parts of the year it's one long journey, with them. No months of ragged leaves or snowcover. The hoya game seems to be all about coaxing new acquisitions into being satisfied and proceeding to grow and bloom - and once you've got the magic formula, they'll pretty much just look glorious and get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger forever. Whereas with hostas there's much less fuss about getting them to the happy zone and much more fuss about keeping them from being taken down. Like, if a hoya was a princess, she'd be refusing to sleep because of the pea under the mattress. And if a hosta was a princess, she'd be trying not to get put to sleep by an evil stepmother? So, is the message here that hoya people prefer to fight with their princess than fight the attackers of their princess? ;) That's enough about princesses and hostas, but I'm thinking since the hosta forum is always standing on a roof to take pictures of their gardens, they've put the hoya forum to shame. I expect a picture of one of those giant outdoor hoyas from a bird's eye view, pronto! Here is a link that might be useful: Hosta Lovers = Brave

Pug this particular one is not 8 yet!!! I've only had it for maybe 4 years if that. My hoya ciliata is 8 years old though and is finally producing it's first set of buds!!! These eriostemmas are so fussy about being moved or tampered with. Each time I got a new one i'd find a spot that I planned to leave it in as I know they don't like to be moved around. I had thought at one time about just getting rid of all the eriostemmas in my collection,they must of known something was up and decided to bloom!!! These flowers are rather large and quite hard to the touch,almost feels like plastic. I haven't smelled them yet to see if there's a fragrance or not.