Tuesday, February 14, 2017

First Flower Parade in 2017

I have always been missing the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. It is not unusual to realize it is already the middle of the month when i see the posts of my blogger friends on Facebook. When that happens the posts at the site is already too plenty, and posting that late does not anymore invite many to my posts. Of course it is very delightful seeing a lot of comments in our posts. They are the life of my blogs. Besides, it is really like a reward when people come and leave comments. You always make my day, invigorates me to do my day at a more efficient pace.

When i don't have much flower photos to post, i just post my hoyas flowering that month. It is also another way of documenting my hoyas in bloom. I actually make monthly and yearly comparisons. That is also the reason i post the monthly blooms in monthly Facebook albums, another way of collecting data. Moreover, i am trully flaunting them, LOLs.

Hoyas named after people: 

 Hoya valmayoriana

from Dr. Helen Valmayor, an orchidist and a pillar in Philippine ornamental industry

Hoya ilagiorum

This is named after the Ilag family, composed of academicians, professors, and scientists; both the parents (Drs. Leodegario and Lina Ilag) and their children.

Hoya buotii

from Dr. Inocencio Buot, a botanist, professor and former dean 
of the University of the Philippines at Los BaƱos-Open University

Hoyas named after places of origin:

Hoya benguetensis

from Benguet, a province in the Cordillera Region of Northern Philippines

Hoya bicolensis

from Bicol, a region composed of a few provinces at the south of Luzon

Hoya halconensis

from Mt. Halcon, a mountain in Mindoro province in Southern Luzon

Hoyas named according to their description:
 Hoya multiflora

 Hoya crassicaulis

 Hoya pubicorolla ssp. anthracina

 Hoya alwitriana 

 Hoya bifunda ssp. integra

 Hoya imperialis

buds of Hoya alwitriana

buds of Hoya imperialis

Our World Tuesday
GBBD
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19 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, what a beautiful collection of hoyas. My favorite was the Hoya pubicorolla ssp. anthracina. Thank you for sharing photos and info, very interesting about name origins.

    Happy Valentine's Day ~ FlowerLady

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    1. Happy Valentine's as well Loraine. Those are just a few in my collection, flowering is low this month, besides it will be too long if I put many of them.

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  2. You are indeed fascinated with these precious little blooms.

    Worth a Thousand Words

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    1. Correction please, not only fascinated, but addicted. LOLs. And this is followed by hippeastrum.

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  3. Lovely blooms, thanks for sharing them with us for bloom day!

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  4. I had no idea there were so many different Hoya flowers! That Hoya pubicorolla ssp. anthracina is magical, the way it's hugging the tree trunk. Beautiful!

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  5. What an incredible range of Hoya you have! I had no idea there were so many wonderful variations. I have just a couple and the only one that's currently flowering is Hoya multiflora but then it flowers year-round. Happy Garden Bloggers' bloom Day!

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    1. Oh i am glad to know there's someone who is also into hoya that reads my post. The Philippines has less than 100 documented hoya species, and i have 70sp at the moment. Those in picture are those only blooming last Saturday when i went home. LOL.

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  6. Wow you have a lot of beautiful Hoyas in your garden!

    Greetings, Sofie #26
    http://sofiecreates.blogspot.be/2017/02/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-february-2017.html

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    1. Oh yes Sofie, and those are only the blooms last Saturday, as i leave home to the city again on Sunday afternoons. Some of the hoyas bloom during weekdays which i fail to see. But i have at least 70 species.

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  7. Beautiful hoyas, a plant I have never even attempted to grow. Thank you for visiting my blog; the wind was howling outside earlier and it snowed last night; hoyas are just right for a day like today. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. A lot of successful hoya growers are in the coldest countries like Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia. But of course they are indoors. Come over more often so you will see more perennially showing flowers and plants, we don't have winter.

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  8. These are beautiful...the flowers look like tiny starfish!

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  9. Those are such beautiful blooms. It will be several months before we see flowers here, our snowiest time of the year is still to come.

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    1. OMG, don't you feel like you are becoming a cold-bloodied animal already. That's a joke, but i really cannot relate to people with such long winter and the summer is still cold. Keep warm!

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  10. Thank you for stopping by my blog and for your kind words. Your collection of hoyas is absolutely beautiful, and I enjoyed reading about how each was named. I would have to grow these beautiful plants indoors, as the winters get too cold here, but I would be interested in learning more about them.

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    1. Thank you so much Lee, I commented in Three Dogs....that I so envu those like you coz am a hoticultirist-physiologist, but am not good with landscaping. Hoping you grow hoyas soonest.

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