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| Flowers of Hoya bella on my kitchen windowsill in Hayes. 20 June 2012. |
It is a little sturdier than H. serpens and hangs stiffly rather that trails limply. It flowers almost all year, with a light floral fragrance that you need to get up close to appreciate, not like the deep all-pervading odour of H. serpens. It doesn't get too big, and being so well-behaved, it is a good Hoya to start with if you want to try them out.
It occurs to me that one of these might be as practicable as the African Violet of the 1950s that as students we had on the kitchen table. My grandmother had them, too. Most American middle-class ladies had some, and they became a sort of joke—and seem to have disappeared.
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