much is happening here and there, but here is another blog about our big aloe plant and its blooms.
Like many flowers on a spike the bottom buds open first and die and the blooming action goes upward..
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Aloe update and mint young ones
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5 comments:
Nice to see the Aloe flowering. Good luck with the seedlings, Wayne.
Thanks for the Aloe update.
That spearmint may be fragile now, but as we know it can become a garden thug.
Rob
chandramouli--- thanks, the challenge as always is to find room for the seedlings
Rob--- you are welcome. thugs... good word. shame mint is so tasty.
Isn't it intriguing to compare a plant to a human? Especially in the way you described: "how a plant that can be so hard to get rid of as an adult can be so fragile as a young one." We humans are the same way. Many get stubborn and will not budge in their old age!! he he.
I haven't seen an aloe plant grow before so this is 'educational' for me! When you became a blotanical member I knew your field of work would be really interesting...I simply have forgotten to visit!! I think working with the kids re: gardening/botanical things must be very rewarding!
Jan--- I talk that way about plants whether is is good or not. I often correct myself so the students don't really think plants have all the attributes I hand out... which I can't prove they have.
I too have not had enough time to visit all the good folk I discovered at blotanicals when I had a break from teaching in December.
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