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FOTD – LITTLE HOYA IN THE SUN

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FOTD – March 13 – One Hoya in the sun by the window

I’ve been growing this little plant for a couple of years. It is lovely. It is also too heavy for the pot it’s in, but it has a really tiny root system, so I can’t really put it in a heavier pot. Instead, I have is slightly propped up by nearby plants. It look very pretty in the window yesterday. There was just the right amount of sun to set it off against the window behind it.

Hoya in sunlight

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Categories: #foliage, #Photography, Cee's Photo Challenge, Flower of the day, indoor garden

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11 replies

  1. lois
    03/13/2021 • 10:21

    This is pretty, but I thought this was a Jade plant at first. They look similar to you?

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      03/13/2021 • 22:41

      Hoyas are a type of plant. There are a LOT of them — including the Jade Tree. There are ones that hang, some with huge plump leaves. The hanging ones look just like a Jade tree, but instead of growing up, the branches trail. They look really fragile to me. I think if you touch them funny, all the leaves fall off. The problem with the whole genre is that they are fine until they fall over and everything falls apart. A bit delicate.

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      • lois
        03/14/2021 • 12:35

        Thanks, Marilyn! I learned something new. My cats are way too curious about everything, so I don’t keep plants in the house, which I sorely miss. I so envy your indoor plants–so pretty.

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  2. beth
    03/13/2021 • 08:15

    that’s so pretty!

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      03/13/2021 • 22:43

      The light coming from behind it was really lovely. I have a “thing” about the light of the sun on leaves and branches. There’s actually a word for it in Korean that I can’t remember, but it means (literally) “the light of the sun on leaves and branches.” I think Korean has a word for everything or at least, everything photographic.

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  3. queadrian
    03/13/2021 • 02:13

    Until now when I read this, I know the name of the plant I had in my garden. Thanks, Marilyn.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      03/13/2021 • 22:46

      Hoyas are not a single plant. There are quite a few of them. They all have those big plump leaves, tiny root systems. If you look them up online, I’ve seen at least a dozen different types of them. I like the trailing ones, but they look really fragile. Maybe when they live outside, they are sturdier, but in the house in a pot? They fall over and break into so many pieces!

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