Aloe
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Including Aloe cooperi & Aloe Johnson’s Hybrid

Aloe

A rosette of fleshy leaves and eye-catching terminal panicles roosting on long scapes hallmark this diverse genus of undemanding drought tolerant succulents. Asking only for sharply drained soil and protection from too much winter cold, Aloes make topnotch container subjects and highly ornamental additions to any garden, especially when associated with Crocosmias, Cistus or Melianthus ‘Antonow’s Blue’.

Aloe cooperi    

Cooper’s Hardy Grass Aloe

Hailing from the dry open grasslands of South Africa and discovered in 1860, this bold flowered Aloe is smaller and hardier than most in the genus. The showy sherbert-colored inflorescences surmount staunch upright stems and feature dangling green-tipped apricot-pink florets. Nectar feeding birds and gardeners alike are drawn to the blooms, while the young shoots and flowers are considered a delicacy by the Zulu people, who cook and eat them. Slender, white spotted green blades with small white teeth along their margins and bronzed backsides fashion a quick multiplying, grassy clump that’s deciduous in colder climates, evergreen where it's warmer and just right for a water wise planting. Zone 7/8.

Blooms July – August.

Size: 3' high x 15" wide; hardy to zone 8.

Aloe cooperi (P-1604)
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Aloe ‘Johnson’s Hybrid’    

Bright orange, pendulous tubes, each yellow on the inside and fringed in green, compose densely arranged, flashy-looking racemes perched on erect, one foot tall stems nearly all year long. With tiny white teeth and irregular light speckles, the narrow, bright green tapered leaves arch up and out, sculpting a dense, matlike ground cover. This diminutive South African Aloe can withstand cool winter temperatures and musters alluring contrast when sited amid Euphorbia ‘Blue Haze’ in the rockery.

Blooms March – October.

Size: 2' high x 2' & spreading; hardy to zone 8.

Aloe ‘Johnson’s Hybrid’ (P-1605)
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