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Lovely, islandjim. I, too, have a Hoya, however, mine isn't blooming anything like yours! In fact, it hasn't bloomed at all. I purchased it as a young plant @ the plant nursery back in the early fall. What do I need to do to encourage blooming? Is it yet too young? It's put on two new sets of leaves...
May well be too young. I don't know where you live, and that may be a factor. I'm in southwest Florida and my hoyas grow outside--one through the lattice work of my lathhouse and the oither two on wires on my [outdoor] front porch. Nevertheless, they were all at least 3 years old before they began to bloom. Once they reached that magical age, they have bloomed a lot--and almost all-year around.
I have had this plant for at least ten years. I got a cutting from a friend who did not know what it was and all of these years I thought it was a lipstick plant. However it never flowered. Five years ago we retired and the plant was put in the laundry room which had good indirect light. It was constantly putting out long new stems which in the small space wanted to grab you as you passed so I constantly was cutting them off. One day I saw something pink on the under of a leaf and low and behold there was the beginning of a flower that looked like a bunch of plastic buttons.Now there are all those tendrils that for years I have cut off and everyone of them is sporting a bloom. What a dummy!
I never fertilize, every two years I repot and is seems to be suffisiant.
I am living in Belgium, and for the moment my plant is flowering with about 15 clumps of flowers.
