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AlohaHoya
Mar 29, 2010 11:30 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
Taking some photos of some of my plants, outside, that are "going bush"...living on their own and naturalized. Most would be horrified by the state of the leaves which are often bitten, chewed, exposed to too much sun etc...but these plants still bloom like crazy.

The 'conditions'? Rains almost every night and cool temps at night in the winter (lowest about upper 50s) and days in the 70s. Summers are warmer but temp usually not above 83 here. Our altitude as 900'.

This first one, H. purpureofusca, is way high up a tree and has been living out there for about 5 years. I still have the pot hanging somewhere, but the vine has grown out of it and is now naturalized in those trees along with H. meliflua ssp. fraterna, H. deykeii, H. obovata and H. cominsii...Oh I think H. sp. Tanna is up there too!

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AlohaHoya
Mar 29, 2010 11:31 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
Hoya coriacea from the Philippines...in an avocado tree.

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AlohaHoya
Mar 29, 2010 11:36 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
H. pubicalyx 'Pink Silver' growing up a palm tree trunk in full sun. I have a number of them growing like this...the leaves are sunburnt and they bloom almost all of the time!!! The hoya grows up the tree and then starts to hang down and bloom....

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AlohaHoya
Mar 29, 2010 11:45 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
Found this by accident...around the corner....H. carnosa. This is in a pot with a bunch of other carnosas hanging under a tree...very shady....

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Imagepropmaker
Mar 30, 2010 8:53 AM CST
Name: Dominic Murray
Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Do you find a lot of them root away from their pots Carol and leave them defunct?.the Pots that is
Dee2
Mar 30, 2010 11:41 AM CST
Name: Dee Enslow
Chipley, FL (panhandle)
Oh my Carol, I love the way you are able to let them just "go back to nature" in the trees. I really like the first one, pink, LOL tongue in check. I am curious like Dom, once they do this, they leave the pot?

Dee
AlohaHoya
Mar 30, 2010 11:52 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
Yes...except for the eriostemmas, they all start growing ON the tree, rock etc. and the pot seems incidental...just there. If there isn't much foliage in the pot...I take it away. There is a HUGE clump of bamboo outside the porch, and I have put a bunch of pots around it...growing up: erythrostemma, kenejiana, amoena, pottsii, australis, acuta...and am going to put more....they really have fun on/in/over the trees... Will post more photos...
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ImageSunshinesw
Apr 30, 2010 1:27 PM CST
Name: Jan
Cape Coral, FL
I envy you being able to grow outside in natural setting.

Jan
Imagecpawl
Apr 30, 2010 2:43 PM CST
Name: cindy
Delta, BC,Canada
Caro,l keep the photos coming.I love seeing all your hoyas growing in the wild.

Cindy
AlohaHoya
Jun 24, 2010 12:52 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
I had H. motoskei growing in a huge shrubby tree off the porch...and one of the major trunks rotted and broke off today...and we had to untangle about 9' of hoya vine ... (can't bear to waste anything). This is one of the 'impressions' left by the vine on a 1" thick branch....the grip of death!!!

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AlohaHoya
Jun 24, 2010 12:55 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
H. motoskei had been growing under that tree, planted in a big pot with an upside down tomato cage for a trellis. It just loved it under there....dark and moist...bloomed all year!!! When, after the big trunk broke, I moved the pot, and in 6 months it has grown thru the pot and into the ground. Look at the root ball under the pot....

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AlohaHoya
Jun 24, 2010 12:57 AM CST
Name: Carol Noel
Hawaii (near Hilo)
It's all about choices.
And a 5 headed peduncle all putting out umbels!!

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ImageSunshinesw
Jun 24, 2010 3:04 AM CST
Name: Jan
Cape Coral, FL
My goodness! 5 headed peduncle is huuuuuge.

Jan
Imagethreegardeners
Jun 24, 2010 5:09 AM CST
Name: Lee Anne Stark
Ontario, Canada
Perpetually happy!
That's totally amazing!!
ImagePerennialgirl
Feb 25, 2012 9:51 PM CST
Name: Donna
Winnipeg, Manitoba Zone 4
Carol your 5 headed peduncle is amazing! I just want one!!! Also I can't get over the incredible strength of the H. motoskei vine to make such a groove in tree's branch!!
plumania
Feb 25, 2012 10:02 PM CST
Name: Alka
South Florida
Carol, your pictures look absolutely gorgeous. Lush and happy plants. Probably better than what they can do in their 'natural' areas. They seem to like your place better. ... can't blame them.
It is a treat to see your pictures. Looking forward to more.

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