Showing posts with label wax plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wax plant. 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. 




Lessons in humility

When I was first starting out in the work world, I had a number of part-time jobs, many of them involving office work. One of the more inter...