A home, a yard, a never-ending adventure

A home, a yard, a never-ending adventure

Found an Aloe Forest

By Published On: December 20th, 20190.7 min readCategories: Garden, Photos

For the past week I’ve been cleaning a long neglected section of the Acre in preparation for a chicken (and duck) friendly Mediterranean garden. To clear one area I had to chop down a rogue oak sapling and cut out a tone of dead brush below it. When I finally did get the area cleaned up, I discovered a rather large patch of aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis) growing quite happily along the fence line.

I vaguely recall planting an aloe (i.e., one) there probably back in the late 90’s-early 2000’s. You think with no water, covered in debris and totally neglected, that it’d be struggling (at least a bit), but there’s at least 100 plants. I guess the colony is doing just fine.

I think I’ll keep these aloes for the Mediterranean garden, but I’m definitely going to thin them a bit.

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Sage Osterfeld
I’m just a guy with nearly an acre of dirt, a nice little mid-century ranch house and a near-perfect climate. But in my mind I’m a landscaper survivalist craftsman chef naturalist with a barbeque the size of a VW and my own cable TV show. I like to write about the stuff I build, grow and see here at Sage's Acre.

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