The Most Amazing Hoya!

I was given a Hoya Carnosa about 4 years ago and it did nothing for 2 years. I then moved it to an upstairs windowsill with sun in the afternoon…………….

Oh me oh my! I think it likes it here! It had one lot of flowers last year and this year it has 6! It is also called the Porcelain plant or the Wax plant.

It is the most amazing (as in the title) textured plant!

These are the flower buds-they look very much like plastic.

In this photo you can see the closed buds, some half opened and the fully opened flowers.

When they are fully open, they seem to produce a thick, sticky liquid which I presume is nectar of some sort.

And this is the flower from behind!

I find them fascinating and as I sit here I can tell you they also have a sweet perfume!

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Astrantia

I usually like plants that are bright and vivid but for some reason the Astrantia has always been a flower that I absolutely love-it’s so delicate and fine and just gorgeous, and I am pleased to say I have them in my garden!

If you wanted a proper description….here it is!

“Astrantia are clump-forming herbaceous perennials with palmately lobed basal leaves and branched, erect, wiry stems bearing compact umbels of tiny flowers surrounded by a rosette of showy bracts.”

Well I never!!! To me they are just beautiful!

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Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

Well maybe just one word……Borage!

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Garden Gazanias

Can’t help myself-I have to get a really close close up!

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Wordless Wednesday

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For Helen

So sad you’ve gone…..

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Wordless Wednesday

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Macro Monday: 9 Dahlias

At the weekend we went to Anglesey Abbey to see the Dahlia display…it was rather wet but definitely worth it……

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Why Bover wiv a Hover?

Here’s why……

 

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