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Hoya wayetii

Very nice plants. Are they doing mail order now?

No, they had a couple of giveaways lately.

Thank you Justin, here's my wayetti. So full and beautiful!

Yes Mentha hurry and get better. Its getting to pretty outside to be sick!!!

Wayetii is very nice, one vine of mine rooted to a 4x4 in the shadehouse and is climbing all over the place. You all might look for variegated wayetii in your BB stores, it's beautiful. I found mine in a Walmart a year or so ago, probably a Costa Farms product.

Russ

Forgot to say 'get well soon', Mentha. Pneumonia! Whoa! You take good care of yourself, good karma and prayers going your way.

Russ

Awww, hope you feel better soon Mentha. It is always nice to have new plants to swoon over, especially when you are ill.

Thanks everybody. Prayers and well wishes are always welcome. Just a reminder to all of you never put Vicks on your chest when it's a cold night. You'll end up with a lot of crud in your lungs. Get the Puffs tissues with Vicks if you want to breathe.

Well, whatever the reason you got so sick, get better so you can get back to really important things. Like growing and enjoying your plants.

Russ

Congrats on winning those!! Hope you are feeling better!!

Your plants look great, Mentha --- and I hope you get to feeling better soon!

I'm not sure the spots on Manjula are light related... I have mine hanging outdoors in dappled shade beneath a tree, and there's no spotting. I'm hoping the spots are mechanical damage that happened in transit? Whatever the case, let me know if it continues.

---Justin

Justin, Are you reading the houseplant forum these days? We are all curious about a new pothos, Jessenia. Can you tell us about it?

Exotic Angel plants has a Facebook page and they respond quickly. You can try that

Hey barbmock:

Some Jessenia were included in a sample shipment for a show recently, so I've finally gotten a chance to see it in person. To me, it has the Marble Queen type variegation, but more yellowy-green rather than creamy white. Leaf size appears to be similar to Marble Queen, as well. I bought one to take home, so I'll be able to see how it grows and compares to the others I have.

Happily for you, because it was in our samples, I'm pretty sure it's shipping out now to stores as part of the 8-inch hanging basket assortment. So like any of our plants, it's hit-or-miss.

Does this help? If you have other questions, let me know!

BTW: Thanks for patience. I took the weekend off from checking my work emails.
: )

---Justin, Exotic Angel Plants Horticulturist

Thanks for the update Justin. I checked stores yesterday for Jessenia but didn't look for hanging baskets, so I'll go back and check again but I imagine the best chance of finding it is in the spring.

Have you seen any info on it's origination? A chance branching from a normal Marble Queen or abberation from tissue culture process?

Hope you had a great weekend without thinking about work.

Russ

Hi Justin,

Thanks for checking in with us! You know we like all the new varieties you are selling these days. I'm sure we will all be on the lookout for Jessinia. I have been enjoying Manjula, a very pretty plant. It is growing very slowly, but sometimes that's a good thing.

barbmock: I've been enjoying Manjula, too. And I'm eager to try out some of the new varieties we have coming out. I'm writing about them right now, actually!

---Justin

Hey Russ,

Jessenia is actually a sport of golden pothos that we found. We kept selecting strong shoots for propagation and ended up with the stable variation we're started offering now.

---Justin, Exotic Angel Plants

Thanks Justin. I looked thru baskets of pothos at Walmart today but realized I didn't know what I was looking for. Seems to me that the white variegation of Marble Queen that's turned to yellow would look exactly or very close to a Golden Pothos. Guess I'll have to check all the labels.

Russ

Hey Russ:

Yessenia looks much closer to a Marble Queen than golden pothos to me in the variegation pattern and amount of variegation:

I suspect you're right that it's not going to jump out at you -- when looking at our hanging baskets -- that it's not altogether different. As a variety, it's more for the plant geeks among us than it is for the average plant buyer.

---Justin

I don't have anything to say but oh pretty! (and get that sans out of that coffee cup!) :D

Thanks Justin, that new pic helps. The vine spilling to the left does look a little different so I'll continue to look for it. Mentha, the sans does look like it's in a pot that can be removed for watering, but I get what you're saying.

Russ

Hey guys,

As promised, here's a rundown of some of the new Costa Farms/Exotic Angel Plants varieties for 2017. Note: You've seen some of these (such as Epipremnum 'Manjula') in stores, but only small numbers shipped. They have much better nationwide (and Canadian) presence this year. http://www.costafarms.com/get-growing/slideshow/cool-new-plants-for-2017-from-costa-farms

---Justin
Costa Farms

Must have cebu blue and mint julep Pelargonium. *drool*

Wow! I hope i find that blue pothos!

Hey Mentha and tlbean,

I'm dying to get my hands on that Cebu Blue, as well! I still haven't seen it in person yet, but will share pics (and maybe plants?) when I do.
: -)

---Justin

Thank you for sharing your new plants with us Justin. I love the Cebu Blue pothos, and those Kawaii Vincas. I'm hoping to find them this spring. Beautiful aglaonemas too!

Hi Justin,

I'm an avid collector of aroids and have grown Epipremnum pinnatum Cebu Blue for probably 20 years or more. Dozens of plants are rambling under benches of my greenhouse and occasionally climb 4x4 supports on their own. It is a natural variety of the larger species E. pinnatum and is not the product of a man-made source such as tissue culture where Manjula, Glacier and other patented varieties have been born.

Thanks for the heads-up on the new offerings, I will be looking for several of them.

Russ

Hey Russ,

If you have anything in your collection you think might make a good addition to the Exotic Angel Plants collection, feel free to let me know via direct message. Our Plant Hunter travels the world a couple of times a year looking for stuff we've never seen before. But we all know there are a lot of spectacular and uncommon plants living with avid collectors here in the States, too.

Cheers,

Justin

What a spectacular job! Who would have thought that a plant hunter was an actual occupation. I'm green with envy.

I know, Mentha! I keep hoping one day I get selected to go along with him.

---Justin

barbmock:

The Kawaii annual vinca are really interesting little plants. The flowers are less than half the size of other annual vinca (Catharanthus), and there are just so many more of them. They were named top performers in our Miami Trial Garden last summer.

---Justin, Costa Farms