The garden in June

We had it all last month, lots of rain, cold- we even had to turn the heater on, and also a couple of
very hot days- today it's 29 degrees in the shadow,pffff.
Like a friend of mine always says: " I'm more the Northern Type", I never get used to high temperatures.
The garden is doing great this month, a lot of roses are blooming in spite of the rain ( so enough to
eat for our almost daily visiting deer) .
I made a bunch of pictures and I'm gonna post them here with not much of a system.

 

The pheasant is still a daily visitor,

  

This chicken made a secret nest 

 

We have much collared doves in the garden, year round,and in the summer we sometimes see
also a turtle dove, the one at the back.

Mart inspecting the roses. He made a secretly picture of me and thought that I have to
post that also, so here I am- I hate it to be photographed  but ala:-)

The Hoya carnosa's are blooming!

It took quite a while from umbel till flower, I think a couple of months, and I made pictures
while the flowers were in progress.

Here is the Hoya carnosa tricolor;

A picture from the outside;

The plant from below;

And a picture of the whole plant, it is about 1.50 mtr long,

No nectar dripping bloom, this one, and the smell is a kind of citrus/ musk.

This is the green Hoya carnosa;

 

This one didn't need that much time to develop flowers as the Hoya carnosa tricolor did, about
a month.

Yesterday the flower opened. It's already dripping nectar en the scent is a bit vanilla like- hard to tell
already, because we forgot to smell last evening .

And than,as last, the flower from the Hoya cumingiana almost opened, it smells like dill with a bit of
cinnamom, and it's also dripping nectar.

Hoya macgillivrayi & Hoya stoneana from the EPRIC foundation

The EPRIC foundation offers new types of Hoya's every time I look, so, although I thought I wouldn't buy more Hoya's this year, I was seduced again. I don't know what it is with Hoya's, I only
have to look at a certain one and I am on fire again!:-)
The case was, I saw that they offered a Hoya macgillivrayi, and I already have one, but that one does
nothing more than: to be.
Here it is, it got 4 leaves, and no grow ,

So I thought to give it compagny, maybe when it is no longer alone in his pot, he would like life
more:-)
Here it is with the Hoya macgillivrayi from the EPRIC foundation, the new one is on the right.

The EPRIC foundation only sells rooted Hoya's, I am glad about that, because my little greenhouse
is still full with other Hoya cuttings.
A bit sad to let a Hoya travel alone, so I also ordered a Hoya stoneana,

The Hoya macgillivrayi likes a dry period in the winter, not that it must completely dry out,
but keep it on the dry side, it's necessary to let it bloom. When it makes a flower, take care not to
overwater it, but water real carefull otherwise the bloom may fail- this is what I read about it.
When the bloom opens up, than you can give a bit more water.