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. The only plant that I know you can cut off the thick watery leaves to rub on skin conditions is 'Aloe vera' but that's a succulent plant not a bulb. What did the plant look like? Difficult to describe. Best to search for images under Aloe vera plant. Lots

and succulent looking. Will try for a photo later, not uploaded to here before A photo would be great. Posting photos isn't hard. Take one, load it onto your computer, click on the Insert Image or Photo button (third from right in the menu above the posting box

that each was fitted with a spiral tree guard to fend off the rabbits, our bunnies are super-cunning and soon realised that if you put your front feet on the top of a plastic spiral it obligingly squashes down to reveal tasty succulent bark beneath. Some

from year to year; it is not an exact science, but it is 15cm or so tall and about 20cm or more wide at the base. The result of that tiny bit of extra effort in autumn is an early crop of gorgeously succulent garlic, with bulbs that have shown little

sauce on pasta , made using three huge, succulent and freshly harvested cloves of garlic. It made no difference. Perhaps I should rub the stuff on my skin, but then would any humans come near me? I use insect repellent and it works brilliantly but I hate

this variety to anyone - the cloves are really large, sweet and succulent. Combine autumn-planted garlic like this with some spring planting varieties and you'll join me in garlic heaven!

snails, or perhaps a dew-encrusted millipede huddled down into the thatch. What I saw, was a succulent plump emerald gem - the chrysalis of a speckled wood butterfly.It took me some while to recognize exactly which butterfly species it belonged to

, and planted the asparagus crowns. It's also advised to avoid harvesting asparagus for three years after planting, as this is the time the plants are getting established. Each year I’ve had to watch those succulent looking spears appear and resist

them get established). As LG suggests, maybe take the pots off 2 or 3, leave them to grow on, and crop from the succulent stems from the other ones, and sparsely, if at all, from the uncovered ones to allow them to get well and truly established

Plant runner beans now and these vegetables will thrive in the warm, moist soil and quickly twine up their supports. At this time of year you can still sow seeds, which will produce a good harvest of succulent pods, or you can buy young plants