Showing posts with label porcelain flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porcelain flower. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2020

A blooming Hoya carnosa

I've had this plant, Hoya carnosa, also known as the porcelain flower or the wax plant, for about six years. It's never bloomed before, but this year, it finally bloomed, and the flowers are beautiful. They're also fragrant. The plant currently has about six blooms of the type you see in the photos. Nature never ceases to amaze me. 




Deciphering Clarice Lispector's writing

The books by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector were recommended to me by a friend who likes her work. I recently purchased two of Lispector...