Something we inherited and which Miss P immediately gravitated about...this fairly magnificent specimen of tree aloe...
...from South Africa this 'cape', 'red', 'tap' or 'bitter' aloe is used in the making of medicinal purgative bitters and also the gel, which isn't bitter, is used in some cosmetics...
ferociously spiky and bold - it stands about 1.5m tall and almost as wide as sentinel next to the gate - watch out if you enter our place ;-) !!
Once a year it flowers on a spike of three or four or five that perch up above the foliage...in this rusty orange - so beautiful...
...today it was a drippy, drippy wet kind of day with fat droplets forming and hanging about languidly for most of it...
...I enjoyed these flowers with droplets reminding me of Christmas tree baubles!
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