Holidays

The other day, it being quite hot, my suspecting that the tips of the study aloe were getting scorched and my feeling that it was getting a bit big for this particular window cill, the study aloe was moved onto the patio for a holiday, preparatory to its being moved to a new home in the downstairs front room, where it would get the morning rather than the afternoon sun.

However, as it turned out, the aloe did not get on very well at all outside. Maybe it did not like the slugs (one leaf showed signs of having been bitten by something), maybe it did not like the cool of the night (although this seemed a bit unlikely as a lot of these hot dry places, the sort of places where one imagines that an aloe comes from, are cold at night) or most likely, we managed to over water it. I had thought that leaving it in its pottery pot would be an aid to stability, without thinking that it would also be an aid to flooding, given that the patio plants are watered most summer mornings.

Rather sorry for itself, it has now been removed to the front room to recover. It may be that the main stem is a goner, this last having certainly keeled right over in the absence of the study window to hold it up. Left in the snap above.

Last snap that I can find at reference 1.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/plant-life.html.