A very special lady who lived across the street asked me shortly before she passed if I would adopt her potted lilac bush. It was about three feet high and spindly and I had never seen it bloom, but somehow I managed to keep it alive despite being away for months at a time. This year for the first time since it came to me in (in 2011?) it decided to bloom.
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A Harbinger of Spring
I really didn't know what I was in for when I intercepted these desert plants on their way to the Green Waste bin where a friend's neighbor planned to dump them. I made a raised garden for them by stacking some old tires in a pile. After a few years of just sitting there being sort of an eyesore, they yelled "Here I Am!" by spouting huge stalks which turned into these branches of flaming orange.
From the leaves I was thinking it might be an aloe ahmarensis, but the flowers are more like Aloe antandroi so maybe it is yet another kind of aloe plant. If I figure it out I'll let you know.