Hoya macgillvrayii
By Pitta
- 8 Oct, 2009
- 9 likes
Native to Iron Range ,Cape York. Queensland Australia.A rampant vine growing in rainforest.
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Welcome :o)
8 Oct, 2009
Welcome Pitta....That Hoya is gorgeous......Just love the colour..
8 Oct, 2009
Bernie , Yes its a very beautiful native Hoya , Its just finished the third flush od flowers in the last 3 months . there were over 30 clusters of flowers hanging from my Oil Palm tree . a wonderful sight . One problem ,I had to get my garden man to prune 11 dead fronds from the oil palm which meant heaos of Hoya hanging from those fronds got cut off.I will get him to place lengths of the Hoya beside big trees .Once the Hoya has flowered it reflowers from that spot , so never cut the flowers off.
Hywel, Thank you for the Welcome . You sound like a very artistic person in many different fields. I was an artist before my stroke and now cannot use one side of my body . I learnt to use my left hand and can do scetching.
Milky , You are in a completly different area to me , I wish you luck with you Frangipani. When I put a new cutting in I expect it to leaf and flower within the year.
I don't know if this will work putting 3 answers on here one after the other as I'm new to this forum and if its not right please put me right .
8 Oct, 2009
It works perfectly Pitta - answering 3 people at once in your comment box as we all get to see it. It's a shame you lost so many heads of the hoya when the palm tree was tidied up - although those palms certainly don't look great with lots of dead fronds hanging off I know .. I have the same problem myself.
8 Oct, 2009
Thanks for your reply Pitta. You'll get used to the site soon.
9 Oct, 2009
Beautiful photo Pitta welcome to GOY....
9 Oct, 2009
Thank You Janette , I am still feeling my way through the GOY site.
I cannot post another pic. for 3 more days as I reached my limit,
9 Oct, 2009
wounderful flower Pitta. its a great plant i have only seen the one with off white flowers...
14 Oct, 2009
Thanks Sandra , there are hundreds of different Hoya ,
14 Oct, 2009
Stunning photo ! :o)
14 Oct, 2009
Thanks Terratoonie, so sorry to hear about you dogs cancer . I have a mini foxie , my daughter carer has a small dog of unknown parentage .
Thank you for blog info I'll change that .
14 Oct, 2009
Wow, what a beautiful flower. Welcome to GoY, Pitta. :o)
14 Oct, 2009
A fantastic flower Pitta. I checked out your website, great photos and interesting. Welcome
14 Oct, 2009
Gilli .Hi from Tropical Australia which is the opposite in climate to Canada .
You will see by my website our gardening is so different .
You may be new to gardening but you are on the right track already by putting organic matter into you ground. the 3 things you need to make good loam [ the best for all plants ] are Clay Sand and organic material .Keep turing these over in you patch and it will end up as friable Loam.
15 Oct, 2009
Hi Pipsqueak, I adore you dog
looks like a Sheltie..Good luck with the gardening , if you want to be a gardener theres only one kind A Gardenoholic
15 Oct, 2009
beautiful flower,Pitta.welcome.
17 Oct, 2009
Thanks for the great welcome. My daughter/carer is responsible for the photo's , because of my disability on the right side I can no longer hold an operate a camera.But Gee I can still hoon around the property on my scooter and enjoy my life , its just different to what vit used to be.I got the laptop computer a year ago and my daughter has taught mr how to use it .could'nt imagine life without it now'
19 Oct, 2009
Welcome from me too.
19 Oct, 2009
Pitta:
I've never seen a Hoya quite like this before...it's gorgeous!
It is very fragrant...like most Hoya species?
Welcome to GoY!
20 Oct, 2009
yes and this Hoya has the largest flowers of all Hoyas.
20 Oct, 2009
Pitta:
It sure looks like it...I've seen some large flower clusters, however, the flower themselves were smaller.
I've seen large Hoya carnosa vines in Balboa Park growing up into the palm trees...however, never saw flowers as dark purple as this species. It's spectacular. I would love to see if it's available for sale here. : > )
20 Oct, 2009
Pitta:
My friend who has a very famous nursery in
the U. S. has it for sale in his nursery in
Northern San Diego County.
20 Oct, 2009
your plants are really pretty
26 Oct, 2009
so beautiful!
8 Nov, 2009
So many comments thank you all.
SOMEONE ASKED IF IT HAD PERFUME , YES VERY MUCH SO
9 Nov, 2009
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Gorgeous hoya - welcome to GOY from a fellow Queenslander. Had a look at your website, Pitta ... you have a lovely garden up there in the rainforest. Your photos are fantastic.
8 Oct, 2009