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Hello everyone and welcome to the In Defensive Plants podcast, the official podcast of

Indefensive Plants.com. What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How's everyone

doing this week? Staying healthy? I certainly hope so.

I've got a very exciting episode for you today because it involves a group of plants that are

increasingly growing in popularity among the house plant trade. I am, of course, talking about those

vining, tropical milkweed relatives, the Hoyas. And these are an incredible group of plants,

especially if you've ever had the luck of seeing any of the species in flower.

They're gorgeous.

It's milkweed flowers on steroids, I'm telling you.

And joining us to talk about that is Hoya expert himself, Doug Chamberlain.

If you don't know who Doug is, he runs the blog and video series called Vermont Hoyas.

And it's all about his adventures growing these intensely tropical plant species in Vermont, which is an incredible feat, and he's doing some really interesting things to make sure that these plants can grow, thrive, and flower.

And he's sharing all of that knowledge with the world.

And it's really cool because you're going to see that it's not just about growing plants. It's not just about making the hobby better. He's making important scientific

discoveries and observations as they go, because a lot of these species are only recently

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