Many years ago my sister asked for a couple of succulent plants for her Birthday. I obliged and found some interesting looking plants for her.

A few weeks later I bought my own. One commonly known as a jade tree or money tree, and the other a spiky type of aloe.

Very easy to care for, the jade tree only 2 years later is absolutely huge! It has outgrown my deepest windowsill and I’m not sure where to go next. The aloe, also keeping very well. Oh, and I have many many more succulents filling the windowsills.

This pattern is inspired by the basic shape of that very young aloe, with its three spikes.