I could swear these thrusting aloe spears were NOT there yesterday! Maybe I just didn’t happen to walk past…but there are TWO of them! I always think they look like gigantic asparagus. They are truly splendid…
To be honest, I hadn’t actually meant for the aloes to be there – the blue/grey agave Americana (left foreground), I did plant on purpose. But I dug the aloes (with permission of course!) from Brownlow Hill, to put into some terracotta pots. Alas, there were too many, and so I ‘heeled’ them in to the ground (as a temporary measure) while wondering what to do with the spares. Needless to say, I dithered for rather too long, and so there they shall remain forevermore! The effect is wonderful – especially when you stand on the verandah and look towards the hills beyond….