Viewing post #883595 by plantladylin

Donald, that is an amazing looking Hoya ... Great Growing!

Doing a rain dance here! It's currently storming ... thunder and lightening like crazy .... but it's dumping a ton of rain so I'm smiling and I can just hear my plants smiling too!

Winter is our dry season here; summer is our rainy season/tropical storm and hurricane season. I'm in Zone 9b coastal Fla. but we do have frosts and freezes in the winter at times. Some years I can leave plants outside all winter and just throw a blanket over them if we have a frost predicted because even if the overnight temps drop to 30º, as soon as the sun rises it begins to warm up. One year we had an extremely long, cold winter and it happened to be at a time when I was traveling a lot to stay with my mom when she was sick and I lost many, many plants to numerous nights of freezing temp's. I remember one winter when we had consecutive nights in the 20's with a lot of ice!! Yikes ... that's not normal for this part of the state. This past winter was so mild we didn't even get a single frost. I'd like it to be that way every winter.