{"id":2884,"date":"2014-12-31T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadmin.plantlust.com\/blog\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2024-01-24T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:40:07","slug":"falling-in-love-with-aloes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/gardens\/falling-in-love-with-aloes\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling in love, with aloes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last spring, after hauling several awkward (and heavy) containers up from the basement, my husband Andrew proclaimed: \u201cyou really need to stop buying agaves and buy more aloes, they\u2019re nicer.\u201d I have to admit he\u2019s right, aloes have considerably less-lethal spikes than agaves, and they can be just as dramatic in the landscape, even in containers \u2013 as I\u2019m forced to grow them in my winter-wet USDA Zone 8 garden. They can however be fairly difficult to find in these parts (Portland, Oregon), something once true of the now, relatively, easy to find agaves that I love.<\/p>\n

\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe erinacea<\/a> at the Huntington Gardens<\/a>, yes there are spikes but this one stays small and thus easily managed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

My fellow agave lover, Denise, author of the blog A Growing Obsession<\/a>, has quoted a California nurseryman as saying \u201caloes have replaced agaves in popularity, because people have gotten wise to the approximate 8-year death spiral of agaves, the bloom-and-doom cycle, which isn\u2019t the case with aloes, reliably flowering as they do year after year.\u201d So maybe there is hope that aloes will become more readily available, even up here in the PNW?<\/p>\n

\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe mutabilis<\/a> at the Huntington Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway it\u2019s those blooms that have me super-swooning over the aloes right now\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe marlothii<\/a> at the Huntington Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe ‘David Verity’<\/a> at the Huntington Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the last half of December in Southern California where I was wowed by the winter-blooming aloes almost to the point of boredom. No, seriously!<\/p>\n

\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe bloom (NOID) at Balboa Park<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe (NOID) at Balboa Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe tree (I think? NOID) at Balboa Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were so many, and they were so beautiful, but\u00a0after 4 or 5 days even my eyes started to gloss over. I wouldn\u2019t have thought it possible but I have to admit it happened.<\/p>\n

Back home I\u2019m currently growing approximately 21 different aloes (compared to over 60 agaves) and find them easy to overwinter in a container (indoors for the tender ones, outdoors, but undercover, for the hardy). Unfortunately it’s rare that one of them blooms, but I do claim\u00a0to be a foliage, rather than flower, gardener. A few of my aloes\u2026<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A shot of some of my indoor-overwintering containers, there are four aloes included\u00a0in that mess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wait,<\/a>
Wait, what was I saying about no spikes? Aloe marlothii<\/a> has spikes in spades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe dorotheae<\/a> is a great small aloe, it colors up beautifully and has produced several summertime blooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe vaotsanda x divaricata<\/a> (‘Fire Ranch’), photo taken during the warmer months<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe suzannae<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe striatula<\/a>, I have multiples of this plant and have had several blooms – always in the summertime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aloe<\/a>
Aloe saponaria<\/a>\u00a0was purchased\u00a0in bloom but has never repeated the performance – it\u00a0is a prolific “pupper” even in a container<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course I have to go and throw a wrench into this otherwise positive post. Those people responsible for plant naming? Well they\u2019ve gone and messed with the aloes, so some of them, well, they\u2019re not even aloes anymore. Gerhard at the blog Succulents and More does an excellent job of covering the name game in this post<\/a>, I strive for such mental acuity.<\/p>\n

Other aloes I’m loving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last spring, after hauling several awkward (and heavy) containers up from the basement, my husband Andrew proclaimed: \u201cyou really need to stop buying agaves and buy more aloes, they\u2019re nicer.\u201d I have to admit he\u2019s right, aloes have considerably less-lethal spikes than agaves, and they can be just as dramatic in the landscape, even in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[48,1287,1916,1913,1915,1914,1920,1919,1918,1917],"yoast_head":"\nFalling in love, with aloes - Plant Lust<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last spring, after hauling several awkward (and heavy) containers up from the basement, my husband Andrew proclaimed: \u201cyou really need to stop buying\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantlust.com\/blog\/gardens\/falling-in-love-with-aloes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falling in love, with aloes - 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