Apparently not a lot of people know this plant and so I thought I'd show you some photos of it. It's an amazing plant - it is a sort of climber, so I've had to put bamboo sticks in the pot, for it to wind it's way around them. The stalk sends out weird little shoots every now and then and on the end of them little bits look like mini fingers....


Then they become a bunch of blooms, but they look plastic....


They stay like this for about a week or so then one minute they're like this, then in a blink of an eye they look like this....






They look as if they're all furry. Then the nectar starts dripping out - this is sticky like honey and it's very pungent. The lounge is often full of this scent - so I have to open the windows to let it out!!!!!


These flowers are in clusters and they look fantastic - sometimes I might just have about 15 of them all out at the same time, which does make it look very attractive...






I hope I haven't bored you with this blog, but it was so nice having people interested in one of my plants that I personally love.

When I first came back to live here, I found the plant stuck in an old pot in the fireplace - no sun reached it. So I re-potted it and took it upstairs to my room and it was facing the window. Well after 3 years of it just sitting there doing nothing - no blooms - nothing. I went up to it and told it that it had two choices - either give me some flowers, or go and find out what it would be like living outside!!! Within 3 months I had 4 flowers!!! I'm sure it had nothing to do with my threats!!! I found out later, that this plant loves to have its roots constrained and I'd given it lots of room when I re-potted it, so it used all its energy in filling the pot with roots etc.

Well many years later, our friend Mickey, came to visit me and stay a couple of weeks and he suggested that I bring it downstairs and between us we could re-pot it again and leave it in my lounge in the bay window where it would have as much sun as it liked. This we did, or should I say - Mickey did - he spent ages untangling the stems and stalks. So it looks gorgeous now and is happier than ever. Now I've been living here for 20 years and it was an old plant then, so I suppose it's about 25 to 30 years old, maybe even older.

So there you have it - my hoya plant which is also called the wax plant because of how it looks before opening up fully. One of the easier plants I've had as far as looking after it. Just add water and stand back!!!!