I took a quick trip to L.A. a few weeks ago and was surprised to find a yard sale in Beverly Hills where a man was selling gobs of stuff he was pulling from his garden or things he had neglected. (Shouldn’t he have had a gardener?) But the shockers were the price tags. These Aloe nobilis came overflowing (and all nearly dead) in a huge, black plastic nursery container… for $3!! Thankfully I had my Jeep and some singles in my pocket. I dragged them to the Jeep and hauled them back to Oakland where I cleaned them up and then—yeah—neglected them. I put them here temporarily in the planter at the base of a lupine. Now I like them there. Maybe they should stay?
