Aloe

[catrus]

Does anyone here collect Aloe plants? I just posted some of mine here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.442946352470858.1073741824.378194115612749&type=1

Please post yours!! I'd love to see them!

 

[Plant Planter]

Ah, the wondrous Aloe vera, healer of burns! I love your plants, although, admittedly some of them don't look like A. vera. Maybe they're just in a different stage of development. Anyhow, it looks like you're doing a great job! Keep it up!

 

[Sharpchick]

Love your aloes!

This is the only one I have at the moment. I am still trying to ID it.

 

[JMN16150]

That aloe looks very similar to my (now dead) Aloe x 'Walmsey's Blue'

 

[Sharpchick]

Looking at other photos of it now on Google. It does look very similar.

How did yours die?

 

[Gigantea]

Here's my Aloes.

A. Haworthiodes.

Mixed Aloe box. I forgot what all of them are.

Blue Elf Aloe.

Here's a cute little lizard that was jumping from my Blue Elf onto a metal plant shelf I have on my back patio. Took them fast, not the best quality.

Big 'ol pot of Crosby's Prolific hybrid.

A. Haworthiodes x Descoingsii.

Some of my Aloe vera.

My best medical vera. Small, buy fat and juicy.

A. Marlothii.

A. Zanzibar.

A. Brevifolia.

 

[Gigantea]

Sharpchick: Pretty sure yours is a Climbing Aloe. I have a smaller one in the mixed box above.

 

[ace209]

Ooo very nice collection of aloes sheila. I love succulents I wish to have such a collection oneday also.

 

[catrus]

Thanks, ace209! Nice collection Gigantea!
I just got more plants from a friend.

 

[ace209]

I hope thoose jade plant cuttings are doing good for you sheila

 

[Gigantea]

I've gotten a few new ones and set up a large bed with Aloe and other plants.

 

[catrus]

Beautiful. You are so lucky, you get to grow them in the ground.

 

[Sharpchick]

Two new (to me) aloes on the back - aloe Crosby's prolific, and aloe juvenna.



And I have now fallen in love with haworthia...Haworthia reinwardtii var. brevicula.

 

[Gigantea]

Nice! I like the Juvenna, I lack that in my collection.

I love haworthia too. Shame the flowers are such a letdown.

I used to have a big ten gallon pot full of Crosby's Prolific. It got a root disease last year and died. I was devastated but now have some fairly good sized specimens I got recently. I have actually gotten a fair few new aloe. I'll have to photograph them all some day.

I do have these ready though, taken today. My Aloe Variegata.

Not quite fully open yet. Few more days.

 

[Gigantea]

A. Minnie Bell

A. X Spinosissima

A. 'Blizzard'

A. 'Pickled Pink' #1

A. Descoingsii x Gasteria Caespitosa

I'll have to get my Crosby's later.

 

[Gigantea]

Crosby's Prolific #1

#2

Some closer shots.

 

[Sharpchick]

A. Minnie Bell

A. X Spinosissima

A. 'Blizzard'

A. 'Pickled Pink' #1

A. Descoingsii x Gasteria Caespitosa

I'll have to get my Crosby's later.

How fast does that 'Pickled Pink' grow? I just got one at Home Depot.

 

[Gigantea]

I've only had it for a month or so and it's put out a few new offsets. It was a pretty mature pot when I got it. I'd say it grows similarly to aloe vera.