How to prune hoya 'mathilde'

After flowering, or in early spring. Use sterilised scissors to remove dead or damaged stems back to a healthy node. Leave all short, bare peduncles intact as they are perennial flowering points. If the plant becomes too large, trim long vines at a leaf node.

Rarely — remove dead material as it appears; structural pruning almost never needed. Hoya 'Mathilde' is a compact, slow-vining hoya that needs very little pruning. The main rule: never remove peduncles (bare spur stems at nodes) — they rebloom season after season. Otherwise, trim only dead or damaged stems. Due to its naturally small, bushy habit, shape-pruning is rarely warranted.

Use sterilised scissors to remove dead or damaged stems back to a healthy node. Leave all short, bare peduncles intact as they are perennial flowering points. If the plant becomes too large, trim long vines at a leaf node.