Having a Mendelian time with my aloe veras!

On the back row, 4 successive "generations" of the left-most plant (I call her granny!👵🏻). Each time it made it a pup, I'd repot it. (I stopped that after 4 years and the realization that I don't need #InfiniteAloe!)

The front-most pot contains my initial collection of "grassy aloe" as I think of it.

In the middle two pots, I planted shoots from both. I guess the roots must mingle because they seem to hybridize. It's funny to me how they seemed to hybridize in opposite manners. The left-middle pot starting growing darker and the rosette aloe grew narrower leaves. The right-middle pot's grassy aloe started to grow wider, more rosette-ish leaves while the rosette variant matched the shade of the grassy aloe and started getting narrower leaves also.

#garden #gardening #BloomScrolling #nola #nolasummer #aloe #aloevera #plants #hybrid

Today I saw the biggest caterpillar I've ever seen in my life! Like a drawing from a kids book, so big it's weighing down the entire top of my olive tree! She blends right into the foliage on my (non-native...) olive, so strange.

We think it's a ~~Blinded Sphinx Moth Caterpillar.~~ Alright, maybe it's just a tomatoes worm. She was eating my olive leaves. I have moved the bug far away from my delicious plants.

#bugs #catepillar #gardening #nola #nolasummer