Are you looking to add some yellow 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
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 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
Aloe suzannae is a slow growing tree aloe to 8 to 12 feet that stays solitary or has few branches near the base with age. It is a relatively rare species that has recently become much more available in cultivation. This species from the dense scrubland of southern Madagascar and produces a large, usually solitary trunk to 4 meters tall. read more
