Garden Aloes

large clumping Aloes with orange flowers (7)

Are you looking to add some orange color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 7 large-clumping Aloes that are good candidates.

Aloe castanea

Aloe castanea, also known as Cat's Tail Aloe, is a branching tree Aloe from South Africa which may grow upright to 8-12 feet tall or as a shrubby collection of headswith clusters of small, dark, orange-brown flowers. read more

Aloe dawei

Aloe dawei (Dawe’s Aloe) from Uganda has clumping, upright clusters of elongated succulent stems that elongate to 3-4+ feet tall and green, fleshy leaves form rosettes about 2 feet across with closely-spaced reddish-brown serrated teeth along the margins. read more

Aloe kedongensis

Aloe kedongensis is a medium-large sized, Kenyan aloe with bright green, narrow, toothy, somewhat recurved leaves and multiple tall, thin stems. The Kenyan Aloe is a suckering, spreading shrub up to about six feet tall that is often used in gardens as a low barrier or hedge plant. read more

Aloe munchii

Aloe munchii is a moderately fast growing small and slender tree aloe that grows upwards to 15 feet tall with a crown of dull gray green leaves. It is an easy to cultivate plant with sparsely branched inflorescences holding spectacular orange or red flowers. read more

Aloe arborescens

Prized for its colorful flowers and attractive foliage, Aloe arborescens is a very common, large clumping aloe with branching stems holding many decorative rosettes. It’s an easy growing and very adaptable aloe from the south eastern part of Southern Africa which will eventually grow to 6 feet high & wide or larger. read more

Aloe rivierei

Aloe rivierei is from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, where it grows primarily on rocky cliffs and slopes at intermediate elevations, this shrubby Aloe prolifically offsets to form relatively large clumps. This Saudi Arabian peninsula native is a shrubby, branching aloe with stems up to about 5 feet. read more

Aloe rupestris

Aloe rupestris is a robust fast growing mostly single stemmed tree aloe with very showy flowers. The Aloe species that in fact carries the moniker, Bottlebrush Aloe, is quite spectacular but is nowhere near as popular a garden plant as it should be, given its ease of growing. Gradually matures into a sturdy trunked tree aloe, topped by a spiraling rosette that produces Candelabra-like 4 foot stalks covered in a bright yellow-to-gold-to-red conical racemes in Winter. read more

Aloes organized by flower color