Aloe

I've taken care of  many aloe plants during my life.  I first used an aloe plant on a cut before I was ever even in school.  My grandmother cut a piece off of one of the plants around the back of the house and split it open, placing the gooey side on the cut and leaving it there for a minute.  Then she removed it and put on a bandage.

Shortly thereafter she got into the aloe craze and we were drinking the green stuff just about daily.  It wasn't great.

I remember that same company for some reason also had a ph color changing lipstick that she used.  I don't understand the point of it but she thought it was neat.

Years later, several moves, and a wedding later and I found myself taking care of my wife's great uncle's aloe greenhouse.  It only had aloe plants in it, wall to wall.  I watered them so well that several of the plants flowered and he started complaining about the water bill.

After moving to Arlington I got some more aloe plants which I promptly neglected, so much going on, and they died after a couple years.  They're super hardy even when you don't water them much.

This guy though is healthy and as long as I don't leave him in the car too much longer he'll be fine.  I plan to have him on the back porch along with several other plants.  The plumeria we recently got being one of them and it's doing great.  So many new leaves.  I'll probably be repotting that one soon even though it's in a fairly large pot as my pots go.