Aloe Species

This plant actually does pretty well in the desert. The flowers are very attractive and reliable every year. It looks best with some mo...Read Morerning sun or filtered light from a shrub or shade cloth. Good potted plant.

Nice smaller turquoise-blue plant that is fairly easy in southern CAlifornia- only gets about 8" tall and has short, fusiform, harmless f...Read Moreleshy leaves. Flowers are also relatively short, on racemes only 8" -12" tall- simple flowers, rarely if ever branched. Makes a great potted Aloe, but can easily get lost in landscaping outdoors.

Relatively cold hardy species- plant in ground that just finished flowering showed no damage whatsoever to freeze here in Los Angeles Jan 07 of 27F... most other aloes did show some damage, and a few turned to total mush.