starry flower
My apologies! It’s been a while, I know I know! I’ve had a slew of shoots lately and it seems as though I am always playing catch up! It’s also two weeks before school starts for Ali, and that’s a big deal around here as our lazy summer schedule is about to end. And we are scrambling to enjoy the last bit of summer that we have left!
So we hosted an end-of-summer barbeque for friends and family and conversation drifted to a plant I have hanging off the edge of our patio roof. It’s a wax plant, and to be precise, it’s called a Hoya, typically native to southern Asia.
Well, this plant has been in my family for a long time. My aunt acquired a rootless, shriveled up clipping from an old friend and she managed to nurse it to health. From that, clippings found their way to my mom and then from my mom down to me. Now, let me tell you that I have never had much luck with plants up until now. In college, pretty much the only plant that could survive me was a cactus. And even then I managed to kill ‘em! But this one clipping of this flower is so special to me, that I’ve kept the darn thing alive for years. And it blooms the most amazing flowers you will ever see. They are tiny star shaped flowers which all crowd together to form a perfect round ball shape. It’s a vine and she loves to crawl, but being the bad plant mom that I am, I have her hanging. She should be on a trellis or something, right?
Well in any case, no palm this time, but I wanted to share this amazing little bloom that graced our presence during these last few weeks of summer. Ali has learned to swim under this bloom, we’ve had many a friend over under this bloom and spent many a lazy afternoon sipping wine and enjoying what can only be called as a summer full of perfect days…..
