by Jen Greene | Feb 7, 2024 | Aloes, Succulents
Continuing my update on the aloes and their winter growth, we’re going to look at more! This post will have more of my recent additions, all within 2023. I divided multiple plants last summer, including my “purple people eater”, “raspberry...
by Jen Greene | Jan 31, 2024 | Aloes, Succulents
I haven’t posted an update on my beloved aloes in some time, and the collection has morphed making an update overdue! I have divided several and offered the divisions for sale at the local cactus club; some have rebounded quite well, while others are slower to...
by Jen Greene | May 2, 2023 | Aloes, Succulents
I keep telling myself I have enough aloe hybrids, that I don’t need more, and where am I even going to put them, anyway? But then I see a new one at a local show or club meeting, and of course, it just has to come home with me. These are so easy to care for,...
by Jen Greene | Nov 10, 2021 | Aloes
The Book Aloe is an uncommon species that is extremely striking as a juvenile, but seldom recognized in its adult form. I discovered the species during the COVID lockdowns in 2020, and picked up a handful to grow up and eventually use as landscape aloes (and also to...
by Jen Greene | Oct 13, 2021 | Aloes
This aloe is a show stopper in nearly every collection, particularly as they gain some size. They are slow growing, which contributes to some of what makes them so coveted: a large specimen is often 30+ years old, usually older. I picked mine up in 2019, and they...
by Jen Greene | Sep 2, 2021 | Aloes
I admittedly have an obsession with the aloes I’ve seen at the Safari Park that look like, as my brain likes to call them, “Dinosaur Skin”. The ones at the Safari Park are huge, but the texture seems to occur in a handful of species. I’ll be...