Hoya carnosa

This is the hoya that got me interested in hoyas. When my mother died more than 12 years ago, I got all her plants in my then new apartment where I had almost no plants. It was nice memories of my mother having her plants around, but they kept dying one by one... except the carnosa and a few other plants. These plants are still with me, and some have gotten really big and some I had to renew a couple of times so they look good.

Shortly after I got the carnosa it started blooming and after a while I bought a flower book. I found out that it was called Hoya carnosa and wondered if there might be others out there. I couldn't find any in our local flower shops, but shortly after I started looking we got internet at work and I did my first internet search ever. I typed the word hoya and a new world opened up... There were so many of them and I HAD TO HAVE THEM ALL! Well, that was more than 120 hoyas ago and if you're interested in reading how I got them all, click here: >>

Today my carnosa is not only bigger, but I have two almost same size plants, the mother plant in a window in the east and the other one is now hanging inside our living room together with my Hoya motoskei where they get some sun, but not much and they have both gotten really green. The carnosa mother plant keeps blooming almost year round, but the one in the room only gets a couple of umbels now and then since I put it there, but I don't mind since I wanted it to be mostly green. This Hoya will always remind me of my mother, especially when it's blooming.

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