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Another Aloe Aria
Will you check out the amazing color of these aloes? During the rest of the year, they are green. Come mid-October I stop giving them weekly water and just sprinkle them with a drop or two whenever I think of it ... otherwise, they just survive on dew. The result? Intense reddish coloration and bloom spikes all over. This is the 4th season that those of us in warmer states have ... the natives & succulent season. I promise I will interrupt my rhapsodizing about aloes to snap some pics of California natives in their full glory - I'll take ya'll on a field trip! I'm not totally against native spaces and wild places, but I am a gardener, so I admit to having a bias.
By the way, I think Scrappy Girl has come up with a wonderful way to garden indoors - check out the tree mural she's thinking about painting on her bedroom wall!
That's amazing. So, they turn rusty and it's sort of like their hibernation? Here's a question for another post: have you noticed anything freaky about the plants out there this year. With global warming and the Cherry Blossoms coming out January 1 in DC, thought I'd ask about CA...
Great idea - see my next post for the answer, Doll...
Oh, as for the aloe comment - the red color isn't really their hibernation (or dormancy, as we know it in the plant world), but their response to stress. Lots of plants also flower in response to stress - you know, the urge to reproduce becomes strong when life is threatened, so they make sure the species survives by blooming, which entices a pollinator such as a bee or moth - then soon you have a fruit of some sort ( fruit being anything that contains seeds), and with the seeds you have the new generation. Ah, the cycle of life!
Weird question, but can you tell me where the lawn chair in that photo came from? Thanks so much!
rkeys23, there is no such thing as a weird question here in Germinatrix land - all are welcome; all matter - in fact, furnishing is one of the MOST important things about a garden. You have to be able to live in your garden - relax, drink tea, eat lunch - and furniture helps us do this. The chair in the picture is part of the Plain Air outdoor furniture line -http://plainair.com/- the brainchild of my partner in garden crime Judy Kameon and her husband Eric Otsea. You should see the round tiled coffee tables they've been making lately. I want one!