Are you looking to add some red color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 5 large-clumping Aloes that are good candidates.
Aloe 'David Verity' is a robust, hybrid created by botanist and botanical garden manager David Verity. It is a clumping plant to 6 feet tall and as wide or wider with 12 to 18 inch wide rosettes of bold silver-blue slightly-recurving leaves that blush reddish near the tips. read more
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
A beautiful, medium size, shrubby aloe with bi-color blooms and a trailing stem up to 1 meter long with offshoots. This aloe typically grows 3 to 4 feet tall and topped by 18 to 24 inch wide rosettes of narrow soft-toothed blue-green leaves. A hanging or cliff-dwelling aloe; the plants often grow precariously suspended over steep kloofs in strikingly inaccessible spots. read more
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 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
