Are you looking to add some orange color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 6 red Aloes that are good candidates.
Aloe cameronii (Red Aloe) is a medium-sized suckering aloe with many upright stems of open rosettes to 1 to 2 feet with narrow leaves that are medium to dark green and that turn a beautiful coppery red in summer. Regarded as one of the most attractive foliage Aloes and also bears attractive flowers. read more
Aloe 'Cynthia Giddy' is an attractive, clumping, spotted aloe hybrid which undergoes dramatic color changes in response to sun, drought or cold stress. This Aloe is medium-sized and forma numerous rosettes to 2 feet tall with dark green white-spotted leaves that have bronze to deep maroon depending upon conditions. 'Cynthia Giddy' also flowers much of the year, from summer to winter and it is a good, relatively hardy landscape plant. read more
Aloe dorotheae is a gorgeous, suckering, stemless aloe for landscaping in a warm climate and probably the most reliably red aloe whose normal coloration in shade is a bright green with spots. Also known as the 'Sunset Aloe' it is vigorous, clumping succulent that produces lots of offsets around its base on short stems to 10 inches that lie flat to the ground. Reaching 2' wide by 1' tall after about two years of growth. read more
Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' is an upright growing shrubby plant to about 2 feet tall with short lanceolate gray-green leaves that blush maroon in full sun and produce a capitate head of soft pastel orange flowers. It forms spectacular colonies of erect, columnar branches covered with red-blushed leaves. read more
Aloe rudikoppe, commonly known as 'Little Gem', is a lovely landscape aloe that grows to less than 1 foot tall with many densely clustered 12 inch wide rosettes of medium green, spotted leaves. This small, clumping aloe produces 2 foot tall branched, flat-topped inflorescences of showy yellow/orange flowers all year. read more
Commonly grown, Aloe vanbalenii is one of the most beautiful and distinctive aloes, with its long, twisted and recurved leaves resembling an octopus. This striking Aloe is a medium to large sized South African species that stays relatively low to the ground and forms clumps of stemless rosettes about 3 feet wide. read more
