Enjoyed your article! I'm very hands-on with my plants, too, both indoors and out. Your picture of hoya buds made me miss my poor hoya. It thrived for years, and had such gorgeous blooms! Then it went into an inexplicable decline, and I never was able to discern why. I tried to take cuttings to root, to start over, but even they didn't thrive. I miss my hoya! LOL