Aloe ( disambiguation )
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- Aloe starting to bloom Nov 14th 2008
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- Aloe starting to bloom 12/08/2008
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- Aloe starting to bloom 12/08/2008
This is my first attempt at growing aloe outdoors. Someone brought some cuttings off a plant she was trimming to a meeting I was attending the other evening.
Aloes want full sun. They are succulents and store water so they need very little water and will rot if planted in a damp area. Aloes do very well in Houston. I’ve yet to kill one.
Once established and happy they will bloom, flowers come up on tall spikes and are impressive. The aloe sends up new shoots and rapidly forms clusters of plants.
Blooming takes place in winter and it makes a great winter food for hummingbirds and bees.
Aloe starting to bloom Nov 14th 2008
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Actually, down here, Aloe will grow anywhere and everywhere you want to stick a sprig of it. It will even show up in places you didn’t put it.
Have fun with it!
Nancy
20 Apr 07 at 12:23 am
That’s cool. I saw some aloe in bloom last summer that was absolutely gorgeous.
I saw on your blog your passion flower is blooming. Mine just started yesterday too.
herself
20 Apr 07 at 3:09 am
This plant has been moved to a sunnier location. It has already sent out baby plants. The cold left some brown spots on it but otherwise it hasn’t minded temperatures down into the high 20’s F.
admin
7 Jan 08 at 1:38 pm
This plant is in a sunny, usually dry, sometimes damp location. The wet and dry spells don’t seem to phase it.
It loves our summers, not so much our winters. It is beginning to spread out sideways now. No flowers yet.
ljmacphee
25 Aug 08 at 11:58 am
Grows like a weed, flowered from Christmas till now and there are still new stalks getting ready to flower. Great landscape plant for sunny, dry areas.
ljmacphee
25 Mar 09 at 8:58 pm
The aloe is thriving, obviously the drought didn’t bother it.
timestocome
9 Sep 09 at 5:18 pm
The frost however did bother it. All the other leaves rotted, inner leaves were protected by outer leaves. It looks like it’ll be ok.
timestocome
21 Jan 10 at 11:04 am