New lodger

The kitchen aloe had rather outgrown its bit of shelf in the kitchen and has been promoted to the study, where there is a window where it does fit because the curtains there are not used because of the contraption on which the laptop sits when it is in residence.

There was some palaver about repotting and we settled for a new pot which was more deep rather than more wide. Oddly few roots visible in the ball we took out of the old pot; perhaps these arid climate plants are more airlings than earthlings.

Watered as part of the operation which we subsequently read was all wrong, so we shall see how it gets on. But I think that the three suckers (to the left in the illustration) will do alright, even if the main plant does not - given that the whole thing was pretty vigorous in the kitchen, even if it did fall over. And it might even be that the better light upstairs will pull it back up again.

PS: I had thought that aerians was the proper word for beings that lived off air, there even being a few humans about a couple of years ago who claimed to pull this one off, but that is not the story at reference 1.

Reference 1: http://www.aerian.com/.