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Re: Jungle-porch Update: August

>The porch jungle's gone through some changes since April.

After reading one of your updates on your jungle, I usually feel like
saying, "Wow!"

As for my little indoor jungle, not a whole lot has been happening, though
there have been a few things that I thought were exciting:

-After 6 long years, my hoya finally flowered, and flowered like mad.  I
couldn't keep up with all the flower umbels popping up on it.  After one
group of flowers faded and dropped off, a few days later a new bunch was
growing on the same spot.  The only thing I didn't like was the smell.  I've
read so much about hoya's lovely scent, but mine had very little and in fact
kind of stank.  Oh well, the flowers were pretty.

-My mini-dendrobium flowered again.  I thought last year was a fluke, but
looks like I'm finally doing something right!  Also, one of the older shoots
produced a keiki.  I was waiting for it to develop roots so I could take it
off and start a new plant, and one day I went to look at it and it had a
flower spike!  It was a wonderful surprise.

-I bought a kalenchoe 4 months ago on the discount shelf for 99 cents, and
it's still blooming like mad.  I've never had much luck with these, and I
think it was because I babied them too much.  This one is thriving on benign
neglect.

-I also bought a lithop (living stone) on the same trip for 99 cents.  I've
always thought they were neat and unusual, so I picked one up and stuck it
in an extra clay pot I had sitting around.  I moved my plants around the
other day, and saw that the lithop has babies inside.  I can't wait to see
what happens.

That's about it.  The African violets are flowering along as usual,
everything else is growing nicely.

Cami
Oregon
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