🍄 It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. - W.C. Sellar
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The bliss of gardening on my little piece of African soil. A year-by-year record of the progress in my old garden. My "new" garden of 2000sq.m. started in 2004, and ended when we sold our smallholding in 2017 and moved to the Dolphin Coast in KwaZulu Natal. Now "my garden" consists of a postage-stamp-size mostly-indigenous succulent garden and it always amazes me how supposedly drought-resistant plants do so well in this tropical coastal region.
Monday, 19 June 2017
First Aloe ferox flowers for the season!
I am so excited! Early already this winter has been freezing and I've been afraid that I won't have any Aloes flowering this season. And yet, here it is! My first flowers for the season! This fairly young Aloe (about 4 years old) is just outside my garden gate and is in full sun, maybe that's the secret. This area also gets very little water as it consists mostly of Aloes and the Coco splumosa trees are big enough to not need all that much water, rain only suffices.
I'm holding thumbs that my other older and bigger Aloes will follow suit with their lovely display of oranges.
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Hi Marie
ReplyDeleteWhat is your favourite aloe? My top three is: peglerae, plicatilis and globuligemma. The only problem is that Plicatilis is more winter rainfall areas and frost sensitive.
Enjoy, thanks.
Hi A, my favourtes are ferox (naturally!), marlothii and also peglerae. I haven't got one, would love to lay my hands on one! Enjoyed your chat and thanks for stopping by! ♡
DeleteDon't know if you received my earlier comment, how glad I was to see you writing again, and sounding well. So sorry you were so very ill.
DeleteYour devoted reader in Portland, Oregon
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