When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
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Here is another succulent putting on a great show now. This is in my neighbor’s front yard and it’s been a work in progress for a few months. It looked like a giant asparagus when the spike started reaching for the sky.
This is what the flowers look like before they bloom. This clump is known as a cyme.
Here’s the agave in all its glory. Like other succulent blooms, the flowers start opening at the bottom and work their way up. Bees were buzzing all over the flowers. These are soooo cool!
This bloom spike is about 12 feet tall. The plant will die back when the stalk is done blooming, but it will send shoots out from the base and repopulate itself.
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When most of our gardens are resting and not looking their best, succulents are putting on a great show. I’ve got a little clump of aloe arborscens planted around my jacaranda tree in the front yard. This year I’m having a good show of aloe blooms: tall, deep orange, and reaching for the sky.
The plants were cuttings taken from a friend’s garden. It’s taken two years, but the plants are filling in nicely and are finally mature enough to put out blooms.
Here’s a tight flower bud that appeared when the bloom spikes first came up early in December.
Now the aloes are in perfect form. It’s a beautiful sight when I drive up to the house.
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