I moved into a house that does not seem to like house plants (at my old house I had 30 orchids, 4 hoya, assorted African violets, Christmas cacti...). I am currently nursing cuttings of a hoya that I got from my mother's old neighbor -- she got the plant as a wedding present in 1902. Fortunately, there is one other person I know who has a plant and she said she will give me one if I can't get the cuttings to root. It makes me sick -- I had orchids and African violets blooming all year around and I loved it. This is the second place in almost 50 years of marriage that has presented a real challenge to growing house plants, but I don't plan to give up.