I have long promised a post on aloes. Well, today I trawled through the last 5 years’ photos and I can promise you: there will be several posts to follow! I will start by concentrating on our local giant as it grows in the wild. This is not that. Rather it is a photo from … Continue reading
Early on a coldest-to-date morning last week. I look out of the guest room window to see how the aloes are doing. Ohoh… The drama queen, the hater of frost, is doing a Sarah Bernhardt on us, a slow languid collapse into a dramatic death. In the 23 years since the house was built and … Continue reading
South African aloes flower over a long period, but by far the greatest number are winter-flowering. And right at the moment one of the regents of the land, Aloe marlothii, marches proudly across the hills a few miles from here. I posted extensively about them here. Above they can be seen, their spreading yellowish … Continue reading
Sigh… a week without internet… a week without the dogs being taken on a walk. A photograph stolen late afternoon just before the sunlight left the Watsonias. And then: a walk for the dogs! I’ve been admiring the watsonias (this is W. pillansii) all week. They flower erratically; I’m certain it is not a year … Continue reading
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