Our Aloe Vera plant has flowered!

Yeah, I had no idea it could do that, either. Look!


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This was the aloe vera plant that I found dumped - pot and all - in the recycling bin after we moved in almost three years ago now.

I felt sorry for it, so I pulled it out and stuck it in the backyard, where I didn't quite feel sorry enough for it to do anything with it. It would go brown and limp, and then there would be rain, and it would go green and upright, and then go brown again. As samvara said once: 'We're teaching it not to trust'.

Eventually, I repotted it in the pot you see in the photo, and it burst forth with life, promptly making itself very at home in the new pot with its potting mix and stuff.

Then last night samvara was watering the various plants we have out the back, and called me out going "come check this out!"

The internet has this to say about aloe vera plants.

Rain, rain beautiful rain

So I'm reading all the posts that are popping up on my flist about the hailstorms and the deluge that has descended on Melbourne (presumably as a knock on from all the freaking flooding that's been happening in Queensland?), and in response to Caitlin's Facebook post, I write:

"I miss rain so much. Like, I remember the sound of storms on the roof, and being able to watch it fall outside, and I ache. Alas."

I read this aloud to samvara, and she goes, 'come on, then' and promptly goes out and hoses the roof for a little bit. I have the best housemate in the world.