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Posted 3d ago by @RefinedSandwort

#TheWateringHole Hope everyone has had a happy hump day! ...

#TheWateringHole Hope everyone has had a happy hump day! I am vacationing in Savannah while my hubby is attends a conference. I did a lot of watering on Saturday and Sunday before we left. According to Greg, I’ll be doing a lot of watering when we get back tomorrow afternoon and on Friday while I’m still off work. Hope all my plants babies are OK and hopefully, I’ll see a new leaf or two! I have snapped some flower and plant pics on my walks around town. Anybody else check out the plant life on vacation? I love a good planter/flower box!

What’s happening around your watering hole? Any new plant purchases?
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@RefinedSandwort Joy what a beautiful place and plants
I am also watering a lot of plants today and tomorrow. And replanting all of these plants mail that arrived. Yes I don’t remember ordering one set.
Not sure if all of them are there
@FitBrowallia You’re going to have to post pics when you get them potted up and let us know what they all are. Looks like some interesting finds!
Anywhere I travel I look for parks and botanical gardens. And always keep an eye out in residential areas for cute gardens!
These are from a recent trip I took to Osaka. Traditional gardens here are always worth a visit. And staff really enjoy answering any questions as well.
@RefinedSandwort I’m glad you have a vacay! I always check out the plant life around me wherever I go too ☺️ @FitBrowallia Jonchel I also recently got a Hoya retusa! Such funny little weirdos. I can’t wait until mine is long and trails over the pot 😄 @FamedGymealily beautiful traditional gardens. Are those a couple herons I see perched on those rocks? 👀

I’m currently waiting for my Hoya sp aff burtoniae to open these blooms, and my Hours ‘Mathilde’ has peduncles all over!
@RefinedSandwort I will Joy
@DreamMachine Nadia your plant wow what a beauty. Yes that’s the reason I got the reuse. It reaching all over the place
@FamedGymealily beautiful. Looks so nice and peaceful!
@DreamMachine Beautiful Hoyas! Isn’t bloom watch fun!
Beautiful flowers and formal gardens! Thanks for sharing! I have added a Hoya Lisa to my collection of plants along with a black pagoda, pink princess philodendron, scindapsus exotica, and a begonia bipina liffida.
Also a pepperomia Hope, a green ice gasteraloe, a curly spider, a chocolate pilea
@GracedStrapwort Wow! You had a nice shopping spree! Beautiful 🤩 selections. Love that green ice gasteraloe and pink princess. Almost ordered that green ice awhile back. You’re also adding to my temptation to try a Hoya. Thanks for sharing pics of your purchases!
Hi Joy! I hope you’ve had the best time vacationing and I wish you safe travels home. I’m sure your oasis is anxiously awaiting your return!! I’ve got something weird going on with Buffy, but in a good way (?). She was droopy a little bit ago and I couldn’t figure out why the sudden change. I repotted her into some fresh soil and fert. While the droops on the big leaves never stopped, she’s now growing new leaves like crazy, so that’s good. She’s been flowering THROUGHOUT the whole ordeal - she cray. Anyways, the weird thing is the flower stalk is nearing its natural end, I presume, as it’s on its last blooms and starting to dry up. However, she’s grown a leaf off the flower stalk. And now a second. So I’m guessing that stalk isn’t gonna drop off after all once the blooms are done. 🤷‍♂️ Just thought it was kind of neat/weird and someone may find it as interesting as I did. @DreamMachine I bet you are chomping at the bit for those peducles to open up!! I took up your challenge the other day, but in typical fashion, tweaked it just a bit. I ordered my first Hoya! Not a burt but instead a Lacunosa violet. 🤩 @FitBrowallia congrats on the new plant mail Jonchel!! They look fun!! lol at not remembering a set - been there!! Ohhhh one last thing I’ll throw in- this Begonia “Darth Mal” that I picked up the plant market thinking I’d probably kill it but couldn’t resist… he’s doing alright in ambient (for now), from grouping and his semihydro setup. We’ve got minimal leaf melt, and I just removed that hygrometer from the top of his pon - 81%! Come winter - oy, I don’t know yet. 🤪
@Jho Blooms and new leaves 🍃 are a good sign! Those are so pretty! See you have been tempted by the Hoya craze. I’m waiting on a trip to a locally owned plant 🪴 shop about an hour from my house. I’m itching to go . Don’t know if I’ll buy a Hoya or another pothos or philodendron. Maybe 🤔 more than one if the selection is as good as it looks online!
#TheWateringHole Here’s my last pics from Savannah. Got a good walk around and a little last minute shopping 🛍️ done. Now back at the hotel full of praline samples and waiting on my hubby and my brother in law and sister in law to finish their last meeting.
@RefinedSandwort that sounds like a fun trip!! Great pics, and ugh - I work with those big ships and containers all day. If the plant shop is an hour away, you’ll just HAVE to make it worth it and pick up more than one!! 🤪 I’ve always liked the Lacunosas since I saw a Laos and was originally after that, but when I saw the Violet, well… hahaha. It’ll be a fun foray into a new type. I’ll need to do an anthurium at some point too, just for the ✔️.
@Jho I like the way you think 🤔! Good reason to get more than one. I also saw where there’s a coffee ☕️ shop nearby.
@DreamMachine yup, a pair of grey herons. Just to the left was an area with a couple dozen of them making a racket.
@Jho Josh that’s beautiful I wouldn’t have been able to leave without it either
@RefinedSandwort hi Joy. Just finished up with the potting. Here they are
@RefinedSandwort here’s the last one. It looked so pretty in the ad but it’s not happy. Let me know if you have any suggestions on perking him up
@GracedStrapwort love them they are so pretty. I’m going to look for the scindapsus now
@GracedStrapwort just saying the are also beautiful and your a bad influence on me. I have to go shopping
@FitBrowallia i can give you a cutting, neighbor! I think this one is exotica. 🤔 I got it at Trader Joe’s last year. I’ve been eyeing her new begonia!! 👀
@FitBrowallia Maybe the one that is not happy will perk up with the fresh soil, some light and watering when it’s time. After all this time of learning to let succulents get bone dry, I am struggling with learning to identify when it’s time to water regular plants!
@RefinedSandwort you are right Joy. It will perk up and one night it will whisper what it needs to me
@Jho yes neighbor. One day we have to get together and plant shop
@RefinedSandwort

Hello dear Joy!

No worries...your plant babies will be fine while you're on vacay!

Savanah is such a gorgeous 😍 city and I'm hoping the heat wave there has lifted.
@CutePolypremum It was still hot and humid, but I made it OK walking about. Thank God for shade trees!
@GracedStrapwort ooh I LOVE that begonia Deb!! 😍 And love the Hoya too of course 😁😁
@Jho 🎉🥳🙌 👏 👏 YAY your first Hoya!!! And good choice, lacunosas are *wonderful*. I’d never even heard of the ‘violet!’ It’s lovely! …sigh 📝 onto the wishlist it goes LOL. Welcome to the wild weird wonderful world of hoyas!!! 🥳

For Buffy, I’m wondering if the flowering just wore her out. 🥱😴 It takes so much energy to bloom. But it’s great that she looks like she’s chompin to get more baby leaves going! If you wanted to help her along you could snip off the flowers 🤷‍♀️ I know a lot of begonia people do that, especially in the beginning so they can focus on foliage. But of course that is up to you!

And dear sweet baby Jesus that ‘Darth Mal’ is STUNNING 🤩😱😱 I have something similar on my wish list but can’t remember what the name was. Hope he makes it because, wowza 🤯😍