Herself’s Houston Garden

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Tigertoothed Aloe ( Minibelle )

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I hadn’t yet put together a southwest themed pocket garden so that was this week’s project. The strip of dirt along the driveway gets full sun all afternoon and isn’t too wet. And every single other plant I have put there has committed suicide.

I moved the aloe from out back and added in some south-west plants, one of which is the Tiger Toothed Aloe.

Aloe is one of those plants that has more varieties than you can keep track of. Tiger tooth Minibelle is not a dwarf variety but not a full sized aloe either. It will reach a spread of about 8″ across making a good choice for tight areas. It should reach a height of about 18″ tall.

Like all aloes it wants lots of sun and well drained soil and isn’t particular about the soil quality.

This variety is supposed to be fast growing with pink/mauve flowers in the summer.

I’m really pushing the zones a bit with this plant it prefers zones 9 & 10 and here in The Woodlands we’re about 8b/9a. With a bit of luck and a bit of global warming all will be well.

Aloes do very well in Houston. I had a slight bought of rust they have been trouble free plants.

Written by timestocome

October 8th, 2007 at 5:00 am

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5 Responses to 'Tigertoothed Aloe ( Minibelle )'

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  1. This is growing like a weed. The 27ish temperatures last week left some brown spots on it but it is otherwise ok.

    admin

    7 Jan 08 at 2:49 pm

  2. This is growing like a weed. No flowers yet.

    ljmacphee

    25 Aug 08 at 12:49 pm

  3. This plant has grown like a weed. It hasn’t flowered yet, I’m not sure if it will.

    It acquired a bad case of rust late fall. Each rust is specific to a particular plant species so it’s not a threat to the other plants near it. I did not treat teh rust. A spray on fungicide can be used to treat rust if you wish. The areas that had rust are brown now, the rest of the plant seems to be recovering nicely.

    ljmacphee

    26 Mar 09 at 8:06 pm

  4. Thriving, I think it’s going to choke out the traditional aloe. Clearly drought tolerant and happy about the drought.

    timestocome

    9 Sep 09 at 5:47 pm

  5. The outer leaves turned to mush, inner ones were protected. It probably would have survived the three day freeze but it looked so ugly I removed it.

    timestocome

    21 Jan 10 at 11:19 am

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