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@FragrantChards avatar @FragrantChards · 1Y
Look at the beautiful sun-stressing on this gorgeous Hoya Sipitangensis that arrived today! 😍 #jaxjungle is the best online shop! Great prices and my plants always arrive so well packaged. #Hoya #HoyaHangout #HoyaHeads #hoyahead #HoyaAddicts #HoyaAddictHome #PlantMail
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 1Y
My golden monkey tail cactus (Hildewintera aureispina) has flowered for the first time in my care. I was gifted her in November, the flower is so beautiful I was in awe. #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #SucculentLove #CactusClique #Cactus #Cacti #flowerpower #BloomingSuccs #GoldenMonkeytailCactus #MonkeyTailCactus #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 1Y
What is a succulent? 🤔 Succulent is a descriptive word for juicy, fleshy, plump plant organs that can hold a lot of water. They come from a wide variety of families and are not necessarily closely related. All cacti are succulents and will be included in this post. We discussed monocots and dicots in the last post, interestingly succulents can be one or the other! Spikey bois like agave (pic 1 in bloom) and aloe are monocots, whereas cacti, jade and sedum are dicots. You can tell what your plant is when they flower. Monocots flower in groups of 3 petals (3,6,9…) and dicots flower in groups of 4 or 5! (4,5,8,10…) Surprisingly they are not all desert plants! Of course many are and have learned to adapt to extremely harsh environments. The saguaro (pic 2)🌵 cactus is a nice example, it takes full advantage of late summer thunderstorms that flood the desert. The cactus will draw as much water as it can, swelling up, then very slowly deplete and use up those reserves through 1-2years of drought! (What a handy plant to own if you go on holiday a lot 😃) To contrast this, a hen of chicks 🐥( sempervivum pic 3) live in rocky alpine areas, living happily on cliffs, rock faces and gravel. Their juicy succulent leaves enable to plant to survive where there is little soil to hold moisture. They will depend on sporadic rainfalls and melting snow to refill their smaller reserves of water. These little guys can survive in cold weather and deep freezes! Happily photosynthesising all winter, they can live in partial shade too but extreme heat can bake them to a crisp unlike the saguaro! Then there are coastal succulents! These will survive with low rainfall but the rolling mists and fogs help provide enough moisture to keep them alive! The Mediterranean and South Africa have a large number of popular succulents. These plants survive through extremely dry Summers by going semi dormant just waiting for the winter rains to come. Then burst alive with colour and flowers! But the most unusual will probably be the the tropical cacti like ephiphyllum (pic 4) and rhipsalis. They have adapted to live in the wet bark of trees epiphytically. They enjoy high humidity and good rainfall but don’t like to live in soggy soil. So succulents are very diverse and definitely worth researching the origin of your little guys to see where they are from. Here’s a few fun facts! Cacti 🌵 They’re as old as dinos 🦕 about 110millions years! This is known as the Cretaceous period. They photosynthesise backwards! Other plants absorb CO2 (carbon dioxide) throughout the daytime and sunlight energy to convert it into sugars. But cacti absorb CO2 at night to prevent water loss due to evaporation in the heat. #cactus #CactusClique #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #SucculentLove #SucculentSquad #Succulents #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
What is an aroid? 🤔 We all love to collect these beautiful beings, but what exactly are they and why are they different from other plants? Aroid is a colloquial name for the family name araceae! All araceae are monocots, but what is a monocot? (Pic 1) All flowering plants are either a monocotyledon or a dicotyledon, you may have grown a plant from seed and notice the first leaf or two. This will tell you what you have! A monocot will make one leaf a dicot will make two. (Pic 1) This often continues through its life, like a monstera making just one leaf at a time, not a pair of leaves like a mint plant. Pretty cool huh?! It also means other things but I won’t go into details here (let me know if you want to learn more) 💚 Okay so now we know aroids are monocots, what other differencess does it have? 🕵️‍♀️ Well you may have noticed the awesome flowers of a peace lily before. Did you know this is actually a modified leaf called a spathe, with a spike called a spadix. Pic 2) The male and female parts of the inflorescence can be either perfect or imperfect. This just means they can be seperated into different sections (imperfect) or all together to make lots of tiny flowers (perfect) (pic 3) Is there anything else cool about aroids? You bet! Many varieties can generate thier own heat especially during flowering! Not only that but they descended from low land swamp dwelling plants. This gave them the ability the ability to have roots that can withstand floods! Such an epic feat means we can water propagate these plants easily and even keep them alive in water permanently with good nutrition! Now we know what aroids are, how many types are in your collection!?! Here’s a list of of some of the most popular aroids (there are many more than this to explore too!) Alocasia Anthurium Amorphophallus (pic 4) Anubias Amydrium Arum Adelomena Aglaonema Bucephalandra Caladium Calla Colocasia Cryptocoryne Cyrtosperma Dieffenbachia Epipremnum Homalomena Monstera Philodendron Pothos (every plant you think Is a pothos probably isn’t. pic 5) Rhapidophora Scindapsus Schismattoglottis Spathiphyllum Syngonium Wolffia Zamioculcas Zantedeschia Phew that was some list 😮‍💨 Don’t stress if you don’t recognise many but I’m sure you’ll notice a few you may own! This is one of the most amazing plant families in my opinion. If you found this interesting and would like to like to learn more about aroids or other families please let me know! Thanks for reading so far if you got to the end 😅 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #AroidHeros #aroids #Anthurium #PeaceLily #Amorphophallus #ZzPlant #Philodendron #Monstera #Syngonium #Homalomena #Dieffenbachia #PothosPack #Colocasia #AlocasiaAddicts #Rhaphidophora #Scindapsus #PLANTMAFIA #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
My Philodendron Silver Cloud is pushing out such a beautiful large leaf! 💚 I’m utterly in love with it! It still hasn’t fully hardened and I hope it can get a little bit bigger 😅 (I know im being greedy haha) #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #Greggers #GregGang #Philodendron #PhiloFlock #PhilodendronMamei #philodendronsilvercloud #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Ahhhh, my favourite time of day! Watering time with a good coffee in my favourite mug. Doesn’t get much better than this 💚 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #GregGang #gregmug #WateringDay #HoyaAddictHome #GregGang
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Some indoor plant updates that I’m loving right now. Pic 1) My pitcher plant is making such gorgeous fat pitchers right now and they’re still growing! Pic 2) New leaf on my Prince of Orange philodendron is such a stunning vermillion 🥹 Pic 3) Obligatory photo of my King Anthuriums new emerging leaf, I think he will be huge when he’s finished growing! Pic 4) Hoya Australis Lisa cutting is giving me new growth and the red is stunning! Pic 5) My lithops bromfieldii has finished splitting into two! Now I have two butts haha. (More pics added below 👇 💚) #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #RarePlants #Growth #Anthurium #HoyaHangout #Philodendron #CarnivorousPlants #LithopsArmy #Begonia #HoyaAddictHome #GregGang
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Some of my garden blooms from today 🥹 My small bop has finished flowering but now my giant bop is having a go ☺️ Hope you enjoy! Pic 1/2 Hemerocallis fulva (Ditch lily) Pic 3 Agapanthus praecox (white agapanthus) Pic 4/5 Strelizia nicolai (Giant Bird of Paradise) #HoyaAddictHome #flowerpower #Flowers #Blooming #OutdoorGrowing #outdoorplants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #plantsmakemesmile #HappyPlants #Greggers #GreggersSupportingGreggers #GregGang
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
My first plant purchase this year and first ever diffenbachia! Bargain at $16aud including cover pot. Love a supermarket bargain. There’s 3 canes in the pot too! Very proud that I nearly got to June without buying any plants 😄 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewPlant #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Rearranged the front of my home today, I am very happy with how it turned out. Any suggestions are gladly appreciated! It gets full afternoon sun so anything that can take a beating will survive 😅 #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #HoyaAddictHome #SucculentSquad #Succulents #CactusClique
@TwistedThreads avatar @TwistedThreads · 2Y
#HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #Hoya #HoyaHangout #HoyaHeads #hoyacarnosa #PlantTherapy I went to a Capital Wealth Management meeting yesterday and I told them I was in love with that Hoya Carnosa and the owner of that facility gave this to me. 😱 💕🥰💯 I was in shock when they did. Look how gorgeous she is. Holy crap, I have never seen such a gorgeous Hoya in my life. I am still in shock. #happysaturday #HoyaAddictHome #GrowLights #PetsAndPlants #GregGang
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
They have arrived early and I’m so so happy! All of them are in great health. My Thai is gorgeous, the bakeri has a curly leaf but I find it cute as! The verrucosum is densely packed I can’t believe how bushy it is, may have to seperate them one day but I’m hoping to keep them thick. The silver cloud is huge I was not expecting a plant this mature also with a few plants in the pot. Now hopefully they all grow a new leaf for my birthday next month 🥹 I am jumping for joy right now! #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #Birthdayhaul #RarePlants #ThaiConstellationMonstera #Anthurium #Philodendron #HoyaAddictHome @TwistedThreads
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
My baby propagations have been potted up! I have baby Begonia Rex Escargot, jelly bean sedum, Alocasia scalprum and dragonscale, Peperomia watermelon and Peperomia Orba. Hopefully they all survive 🥰 Also my Imperial Bromeliad is finally opening her flower buds! The nectar is sooo sweet and yummy 🤤 #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #HappyPlants #PropagationStation #Bromeliad #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Another day with lots happening! My hubby found me a new stand for my plants (we are very thrifty and love finding furniture on the street) Took a long while of rearranging my plants before I was happy, seems like the Alocasia and Caladium have taken over 😂. My largest cabinet looks much tidier and brighter now too I think. Yay! Also my Hoya Mathilde has opened its first umbel whilst my Hoya fungii is opening its second #PlantStand #HappyPlants #Rearranging #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #Alocasia #HoyaAddictHome #Hoya #Blooming
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Garden and pond update I finally bought plants for my pond and let my last remaining goldfish retire there. (I lost all to fungal infection in January 🥲) @sarah10orio I got some native Australian plants and some worldwide too. 1) Lythrum salicaria 2)Yellow lily 3)Bacopa Monnierri 4)Dwarf Cyprus, blue sedge and Ludwigia palustris 5)A dragonfly visitor (we get so many pond insects now it’s amazing) #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #pondplants #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Lots happening in my home! Last night my Hoya fungii (pic 1/2) opened an entire umbel of flowers while I slept! What a nice surprise to wake up too. A cycad in my garden has begun to flower (pic 3) My Queen Anthurium has a mushroom 🍄 buddy 🥰 and my Caladium Moonie is giving me a flower! I will make another post on my garden and pond 🫶 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #NewGrowth #Blooming #Hoya #Caladium #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Bloom appreciation post Hey pretty flowers thanks for making me smile today 💚 1) Optunia ficus-indica 2)Imperial Bromeliad 3)Hoya Fungii 4)Hoya Mathilde 5)Tradescantia Nanouk #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #HappyPlants #NewGrowth #Blooming #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Hoya mathilde is flowering! More peduncles growing too on mathilde and fungii (yes that’s a second bloom this year!) I’m in Hoya heaven! Mathilde smells sweet like caramel mmm #Hoya #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #HoyaHangout #HoyaAddictHome #Blooming
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Back garden #photodump Lots of pics of my imperial bromeliad still flowering and getting taller every day 🥵 Bonus Xanadu, cycad and flowering optunia #Bromeliad #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #HappyPlants #Blooming #HoyaAddictHome
@HoyaAddict avatar @HoyaAddict · 2Y
Yay! #FreshLeafFriday I had so much growth to share it was difficult decision of who to show this week! I’m so proud, they’re all doing so well 🥹 1) Alocasia Cuprea making its 5th gorgeous leaf and holding all of them! Fertiliser is the holy grail for alocasia! Whoooo 🥳 2) Tradescantia Nanouk has been flowering all week with these gorgeous fuzzy blooms! They last a day and then a new one opens the next day 🥰 so adorable! 3/4) Caladium Moonie has make these stunning white leaves 🥵 5)Monstera deliciosa giving me a new beautiful leaf. (Recently repotted and loving its new home) (More will be added below thanks if you got this far 💚) #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #FreshLeafFriday #HoyaAddictHome #NewGrowth