Another Succulent in Flower

Beautiful Orange Flower.

There seems to be a lot of twisting and curling in this group of Succulents.
They look a lot like “Áloe vera” to me ?

Definitely an aloe, but not Aloe vera (which has fewer, fatter leaves with more of a gray-green color, and usually a yellow flower). There are hundreds of aloe species out there... I couldn't tell you which one this would be, sorry. But maybe someone else here knows.

Do you have hummingbirds there? Aloe flowers are bird magnets here. It seems like they must make a steady stream of nectar, because the birds come back and visit several times a day, even do battle with each other to decide who controls the territory.

No Baja,
No true Humming Birds here.
Not like those beauty's yall have there.

Thanks for your reply.

kell.

Another Picture of the Flower.

Lots of different aloes blooming this time of year, in Miami>

Miami - meaning Fairchild Bot Garden>

Very nice Dale.

Thanks, Ginger

Hi Dale,

They all look great.
Did you say they are recent pictures.
Funny how we have similar weather on the opposite sides of the world. ^_^

I see it is 3.55 pm Saturday where you are and I have 7 am Sunday.
Very interesting about our Succulents being on same time clock.

Aloes, as a species have winter and summer flowering habits depending on where in Africa they came from. The photos I am posting are the short day types.

Here is a summer, or long day type>

Yet another great picture Dale.

They all appear a tad on the Orange side ?

Do Yall get the White or Blue kind ?

Here's a coral aloe thinking about doing its thing. Seems like it's a little behind schedule this year.

I have had a white one A. albiflora.

Never heard of one with blue flowers.

Most are in the red/orange shades.

Another great picture Baja.
So yours are also flowering at the moment ?

Do you find it hard to keep the weeds out of your Succulent Garden ?

I tend to use a weeding wand. (poison)
Stops me from needing to bend over in amongst all those spines.

They hurt like hell when they break off inside ones skin.

What a lovely, delicate flower. I've only seen white-flowered aloes in pictures. Never seen a blue one.

Three aloe inflorescences in this current shot from the public garden. Left to right: lutescens (bicolor), marlothii (yellow, about to start opening), and arborescens (just finished doing its thing, but it was orange-red in November).

How cool is that Dale.

I myself have never had the blue one but I have seen it out and about.

I don't think this is an Alo.
But the Flower Spike is very Pretty all the same.

The weeds we have here are mostly annuals (the grass seed starts sprouting after the first or second rain of the season). The hills are barren and dry up until that point, then for a while there's some weeding to do, and then as summer returns and everything dries to a bone, most of the weeds are history.

I recently got this tool for weeding around cacti and agaves and plants with wicked spines. It's sold as a fishing tool for removing hooks from cavernous, toothy places. The handle tightens the jaws at the end, so you can get a good grip on weeds without getting your fingers anywhere near the spines on your plants. It cuts way down on the ouch factor. Highly recommended.

What a great Garden Tool Baja.

I'm definitely going to look for a similar thing in one of our Fishing Stores.

Do you have the Store BFC there ?

Nope. I got mine online (just look for "fish hook remover" or something like that) and it was not expensive.

There is a Flower Spike towards the back left of this Picture.

Can't really see which Plant it is coming from.

Baja, that is a nice tool.

Ginger, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1238/

Dichorisandra thyrsiflora>

Dichorisandra thyrsiflora again

Dichorisandra pendula>

Dichorisandra pendula again

It does best as a hanging basket or raised off the ground potted plant.

I used to collect Kalachoe hybrids, but, they are too much trouble to keep alive thru summer.

The best succulent plant for Florida - Crown of Thorns

OK Dale,
So it's a ginger and not a Succulent.
Thanksa for the link.

All your pictures are really great.

Thanks for sharing.

kell.

I see your Crown of Thorns and raise you three. ^_^

They also do well here.
And straight in the ground as well.

I am a show off.....with a camera.

Bok Tower, the highest point in Florida (about 100 meters) has some nice succulent containers.

And I will raise with a bright red...

I'll see your Red with this Yellow.

I see your yellow and call with a pink>

I fold. :~~(

All I have left to offer is this poor Red.

kell.

It will be big some day...

What about this one ?

Dale,
Why are the big rocks in the garden bed in your last picture ?
Is it to cut down on weeding ?
Or are all the plants still in pots and just held down by the stones ?

My last photo posted was taken at Cypress Gardens a few years ago (in winter) it is now Lego Land. Commerical landscape techniques....

At the Mouse's House (Disney) some kalanchoe>