Hoya as our Oasis for April

Our dry season is at its peak, the height of discomfort, inconvenience, lack of many necessities not just because of inavailability, but mostly because of the difficulty in getting them. In my case, inavailability is not a matter of priority of getting, but depends on which comes most difficult. 

But despite these, we still have a lot of things to thank the universe for! Talk of the "incurable optimist" and i am a good representative. Looking at our very dry environment is not pleasant even for a few minutes. So i, or rather my sister, mother and nephew, take care of my hoya garden near the house. It becomes a little oasis that each time we open the front door, or sit on the front terrace, they are our immediate focal points. We sacrifice time, and resources to let these plants live favorably, and they did not displease us. Come everyone, let's look at these promises of buds and blooms!

Hoya buotii yellow form will open in a few days.

Hoya bifunda ssp integra has a few umbels like this. Their small sizes do not diminish their beauty when used as a photograph. Their many umbels suffice for their diminutiveness.

 Hoya obscura orange in its first blooming. There are also a lot of small peduncles with flower buds. It looks like a diligent and busy bloomer.

 Hoya obscura orange viewed from the bottom

 Hoya fungii with its first peduncle promising a lot of flowers. I can imagine the full umbel of  blooms. 

 Hoya fungii another peduncle

another Hoya fungii, and there's a total of 7 peduncles at different stages of bud development

A still unknows species with only less than a meter stem length already promises to produce some flower buds. They are amazing, and i guess they really love the heat and indirect light during our dry season. Just a little watering in the morning and afternoon induce them to be productive.

And .... there are a few that bloom when i was at home during the Holy Week. At least the previously blooming peduncles didn't fail me now, they continuously produce buds one after the other. 

 This Hoya crassicaulis never stops blooming since January. The four umbels are always busy doing their functions, that is producing blooms. This is my most loved at the moment because it changed the common characteristics for this hoya, that is, the corollas cannot recurve back showing the different hues. I have been posting them again and again, showing my delight with it. The lemony scent in the late afternoon through the night is also an additional value.

Hoya mindorensis color form 5. Despite the still short stem, the peduncle already there as a rooted cutting continues to bloom consecutively. It is such a pleasing sight.

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