Most of us are fairly familiar with aloe vera, especially during sunburn season. But did you know there are more than 400 species of these winter bloomers? What all aloes have in common are rosettes ...

Most of us are fairly familiar with Aloe vera, especially during sunburn season. But did you know there are more than 400 species of these winter bloomers you can grow in your own backyard? What all ...

Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. His monthly column focuses on drought-tolerant plants and dry gardens. Aloes are well-known for the fiery colors they add to winter ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Along the Front Range, semi-arid growing conditions best suit plants that don’t constantly require the slaking of their thirst. And that makes aloes a ...

plant for over 40 years, and it never had a flower until now. It has a long stem and orange flowers. Do they usually have flowers? A: Congratulations! Yes, aloes do bloom, but it's not easy getting ...

As gardeners enter this year’s dormant season, many step away from the garden as plants drift into a rest period, preparing for spring growth. This seasonal pattern is most apparent in the nation’s ...

Q: My large aloe vera sits in an east-facing glass storefront. Last year and the year before it put up a long flowering stem, but the buds stayed closed, then dried and fell off. It is now sending up ...

Recent Chilly Days And Nights Are A Reminder that San Diego’s lowest temperatures (according to more than a century of weather records) tend to occur during the month of January. January’s mean ...

fungal effects. The Egyptians thought of it as the “Plant of Immortality”. During the reign of Nero it was described as a favorite healing plant. In Chinese culture it was used since the times of ...

Beautiful and sculptural; these are two terms often used to describe both aloes and agaves. Aloes and agaves are two groups of succulents that do extremely well in our hot climate, with little or no ...

When the landscape turns cold, bleak and often snowy, the Aloe ferox lifts its bright spears of red flowers all across the southern Karoo. Everywhere you go along the southern edges of the Karoo, a ...