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Posted 1M ago by @AwesomePlants

#DealAlert If you are a #HoyaHeads , #GardinoNursery is...

#DealAlert

If you are a #HoyaHeads , #GardinoNursery is the MUST place for #Hoya !

20% off regular prices BUT she has A LOT of hoyas on sale as well (sales and this steep of a discount is rare from her).
https://gardinonursery.com/

ALL plants arrive HEALTHY and you NEVER have to change soil mix until it outgrows the pot because they use LEGIT chunky mix unlike so many other places.

A majority of my hoyas are from them and I may have.... 20+ more hoyas on the way! ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿคฃ



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They are a great nursery! I have several plants from Sid. I love watching him on Palmstreet ๐Ÿ˜.
@AwesomePlants ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ I don't know how this addiction started but I'm already in so deep a few more won't hurt right? ๐Ÿ’• Heading there now! Don't tell my husband even though he's my biggest enabler Hahaha!
@AwesomePlants When my cuttings start growing enough to snip some off we definitely need to all get together and swap some between us! ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿชด
@princesspitstop GIRL! Sharing is caring. ๐Ÿคญ...but I waited to post AFTER I already placed my own order in case she sells out of the hoyas I bought! ๐Ÿ˜†

I'm obsessed with her shop! This is the ONLY place that takes the best care of hoyas and you receive healthy hoyas. I wish I knew about her years ago, I'd have saved so much money and heartache.

A lot of shops actually get their hoyas from her to prop and resale.
@princesspitstop absolutely!! I'd love to do a hoya cutting swap. Great way to save money.
@AwesomePlants @princesspitstop Heidi is the best!! You both crack me up. I havenโ€™t gotten the Hoya bug (yet), but I definitely am right with you guys on the plant shopping. Late last night, insomnia shoppingโ€ฆ blew my whole budgetโ€ฆ damn pink Alocasiaโ€™sโ€ฆ get me suckering every time! ๐Ÿคฃ Iโ€™m such a sucker for a variegated plant. ๐Ÿชด
@AwesomePlants You're so funny! Thank you for sharing your Hoya plug! @Idplantthat Pink variegated ones at that!! ๐Ÿฉท Plant swaps are free girl! Don't mention that bad 6 letter word! B.U.D.G.E.T ๐Ÿคฃ
@Idplantthat ok, when you do dip your toe into hoyas, buy from her. But be warned, once you see how healthy and established her hoyas are, you may end up #BlackoutPlantShopping . I stay away from her lives on #PalmStreet for that very reason, people go crazy on her lives and jack the prices up, so I stick with any purges she has and her website.
@Idplantthat , no shame in eating Ramen noodles for December to feed your plant habit! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ j/k
@princesspitstop
@princesspitstop my bad! ๐Ÿ˜ž I know I hate that word tooโ€ฆ whoever invented this word definitely was a sadist ๐Ÿคฃ okayโ€ฆ maybe not that bad but pretty close j/k kinda โ€ฆ speaking of hoyas I gotta find where mine are in the greenhouse.. I know they are in there.. but what goes in doesnโ€™t always get found till they grow out and begin growing on other things.. Iโ€™m terrible at this at times.
@AwesomePlants thatโ€™s all great, great advice! Thatโ€™s the one thing that really sucks: when they get popular, the prices skyrocket. ๐Ÿš€ I was looking at some prices of, I think, rare Alocasiaโ€™s. I dropped my jaw when I saw 8 thousand for a plant and then some insane orchid that sold for somewhere like 2 hundred thousand or something??? Mind blown ๐Ÿคฏ Iโ€™m sitting here going โ€œ a plant that cost as much as a house I do not want; the stress of keeping that alive.. ha ha ๐Ÿคฃ no thank you! ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ
@Idplantthat By the way I also put plants in smaller pots on the soil of larger plants! Sometimes they look pretty there and I don't want to move it then I forget about it. Oops ๐Ÿ˜‰
@DreamMachine I'm tagging Nadia so she can see this post when she gets off work. ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ‘ You're welcome girly! ๐Ÿ˜‰
@AwesomePlants oh my gosh. I want to buy them all!! I just purged 8 plants due to the mealybug infestation of Nov 2025. Must have hitched a ride in on my last plant splurge. Iโ€™m fighting for my big jade/spider plant combo, but the rest, eh, I just tossed them out.
@IWantThatPlant oh no! Sorry to hear that! I keep new plants in quarantine for months before letting them join their siblings.
@Idplantthat I used to be into #Philodendron and spent so much money on them, but learned to be patient because prices eventually drop.
@AwesomePlants I know, but I got over confident with my favorite nursery. Wonโ€™t happen again!!
@princesspitstop ahhhhhh you are the BEST, this is awesome! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ I read you talking about this nursery before @AwesomePlants but I totally forgot to write it down or search it up at the time. I remember you saying their substrate is actually good!!

I am also SO down to do Hoya cutting Greg swap, that sounds like a FABULOUS idea.

Tra la la here I go ๐ŸŽต off to look at more Hoyas ๐ŸŽถ

And Rachel @Idplantthat you crack me up, late night alocasia shopping ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

I love you all ๐Ÿฅน
@Dawgfreak I've never seen Sid, only Paula (I think that's her name) on Palmstreet
@AwesomePlants Watch for him. I think heโ€™s the nursery owner. Heโ€™s fun to watch. Lots of plant knowledge.
@Dawgfreak see, #PalmStreet lives ALWAYS get me in trouble because I'm competitive and end up #BlackoutPlantShopping . So I've been avoiding the lives. I can't be trusted with lives lol! ๐Ÿ˜†
Soooo...did anyone buy anything?! I need to live vicariously through others lol
@DreamMachine @Dawgfreak @Idplantthat @IWantThatPlant @princesspitstop @sarah10orio @BabeVila @elisenavidad @wolfqueen @Boymom-plantmom
@AwesomePlants ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜‚ - same! I have a couple of sellers that I just canโ€™t seem to miss. I got it bad. ๐Ÿ˜‚
@Dawgfreak maybe I need to go pay bills to bring me back down and get my mind off all these plant sales! But I don't wanna adult today! ๐Ÿซ 
@AwesomePlants I didnโ€™t get any Hoyas. โ˜น๏ธ. Iโ€™m developing a crush on them though. I have two and they seem to be doing well. They are cute little plants. ๐Ÿชด
@AwesomePlants Lolโ€ฆ I need to delete the Palmstreet app before I have to add a room on to hold all my plants.
@Dawgfreak OMG! Palmstreet is not for the faint of heart! I've seen people spending thousands of dollars on a live and I'm like, uh oh, someone is going to have buyers remorse once they snap out of that blackout!
@Dawgfreak I fell in love with hoyas because they:

1. take up less space,

2. super easy to prop so buying cuttings is a great way to build a collection,

3. can be sunstressed,

4. bloom and most smell delicious when they do,

5. Again, they take up less space so I can have ALL the hoyas! ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคฃ
@AwesomePlants no purchases today, but I killed at least 15 mealybugs dead!! Me and my alcohol dipped q-tips๐Ÿ˜‚
@AwesomePlants you sold me!! Iโ€™ll have to add to my collection! โค๏ธ.
@AwesomePlants I didnโ€™t buy the Hoyas, but they are gorgeous! WHATโ€™S EVERYONEโ€™S favorite/most desirable Hoya?? I did see the red Hoyas and those are pretty freaking awesome. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป I might have to get one.. and this is how it starts.. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ I bought a few wishlist Alocasias instead ๐Ÿคญ I got a pink variegated azlanii, a mystic variegated Jacklyn, zebrina variegated, maharani variegated Aurea, and lastly a purple Albo regal shield.. ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿชด๐Ÿ˜… my addiction is also bad.. as I realize as Iโ€™m trying to figure out where to put more plants ๐ŸŒฑ is maybe needing to take a hold.. I just want two more ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
My poor husband, I feel like heโ€™s just like I live in a mad jungle of I donโ€™t know what all this stuff isโ€ฆ and a half zooโ€ฆ (nine dogs later) with a crazy lady who pretends sheโ€™s got this under controlโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜… But Iโ€™m not saying Iโ€™ve got a problem, I just have obsessions that sometimes consume me. Itโ€™s cool, ๐Ÿ˜Ž I got this ๐Ÿคซ (I definitely donโ€™t got this ๐Ÿคฃ)
@Idplantthat โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
@AwesomePlants @Idplantthat @Dawgfreak @princesspitstop to add to โ€œwhat I love about Hoyaโ€™sโ€

With other plants you often see how big the new leaf is going to be. Like itโ€™s a big unrolled (I mean rolled) scroll. But a hoya? Teeny TINY little smol mini baby leaves, every. single. time. ๐Ÿค๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฅน

And then you wait to see how big it grows.
@DreamMachine so coolโ€ฆ. I see the appeal. ๐Ÿ˜.
@AwesomePlants I bought three Hoyas today ๐Ÿ˜‰. He had a basket on his live today that I needed so I went to his website to see if I needed anything else and I turns out I did. They were on sale too. Yas!!! ๐Ÿ˜€
@Dawgfreak sooooo exciting!!!
@AwesomePlants, thank you! Got me a Hoya quinquenervia. ๐Ÿ˜
@wolfqueen from Gardino? OMGeee! You are gonna be blown away and get hooked quickly with Gardino.
@AwesomePlants, oh Lord. I do not need another plant site, lol!
Noooooooo!! ๐Ÿซ 

Guess what this #CrazyPlantLady just "found"?! I just "found" plants that I just ordered yesterday.

Reason 1 why I need to add plants to Greg ASAP - so I don't order the same plant twice! ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ @DreamMachine @wolfqueen @Boymom-plantmom @Dawgfreak @Idplantthat @IWantThatPlant @princesspitstop @sarah10orio @PlantMompy
@AwesomePlants omg ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ You are too funny!! Well, you sure know what you like! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
@awesomeplants Same!! lolโ€ฆ I still donโ€™t have them all in there but Iโ€™m close. Itโ€™s saved me from buying duplicate orchids a couple of times. ๐Ÿ˜…
@AwesomePlants, you are definitely not alone. I ordered an anthurium radicans x luxurians once, then brainfarted and ordered it again. I was so annoyed. Most annoying thing? They BOTH eventually died. That's when I swore off anthuriums. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜ซ๐Ÿซฃ
@AwesomePlants ohhh ๐Ÿ˜ฎ I missed this one ๐Ÿ™„
@wolfqueen I tried a few anthurium as well, but I can't keep them alive either.
@wolfqueen I'll post my haul when I get it. Wait til spring, but #GardinoNursery is the place to go for hoyas.

Who did you order your quinquenervia from?
@AwesomePlants, it was from Gardino.
@wolfqueen Please share photos and tag me once you receive it.
@wolfqueen did you get yours yet? Paula held my order until this week because it was so large die to weather so I'm anxious to get mine
@AwesomePlants, not yet. I did get an email telling me it shipped today, though. I think maybe they were being careful of the weather, too. I did order a heat pack, but I don't know how effective they can be.
I wish shops had black friday sales at end of summer so we could order without worry.

I was having FOMO so I placed another order yesterday๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซ  @wolfqueen
@AwesomePlants, I did get my Gabriella plants tonight. My hoya latifola "pot of gold" and a philodendron mayoi (trying again. They'll tide me over until my other order arrives. ๐Ÿ˜
@wolfqueen
The mayoi is a fun plant to watch grow, it can grow wild though. I saw one grown as a hanging plant and loved it! I'm trying to go for the same effect, but also want to prop a piece to grow upright to try to get big leaves.

๐Ÿง that "pot of gold" isn't much of a pot.

Once the plants settle for a week or so, check those roots. Gabriella is teetering on my hit list for "prop pots" (plants recently potted that don't have established roots, but are sold as established plants). You'll also want to add more chunk in that hoya mix. You'll see the mix difference when you get your Gardino hoya and be blown away!
@AwesomePlants, yes, I will say that I have gotten a couple "prop pots" from them. This one was a 3" pot. Roots looked ok. I do get good service when I complain, though. I moved both to different, similarly-sized pots with some chunkier mix and gave them a good drink of some warm water. Hopefully they will grow well.
@AwesomePlants, just got my new baby. She's so good-looking! Lots of leaves and even has a peduncle. She's bloomed before! Maybe she will again. Gabriella could definitely take note. So much more plant and in far better condition. I popped her into one of my dragon egg pots. She's gorgeous! Glad I was home to bring her out of the cold.
@AwesomePlants Scratch that. TWO peduncles!
@wolfqueen right!!! #GardinoNursery is legit!!! I'm so happy you're pleased!!