Are you looking to add some red color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 5 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 classenii is a very attractive, colorful suckering, crawling aloe from Kenya that makes a profuse mass of lime green and bright red red to maroon. Grows up to 18 inches tall and spreads horizontally up to 2 feet along creeping stems with emerging rosettes made of almost plastic-like leaves. 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 elgonica is beautiful Aloe from the Trans-Nzoia District of Kenya. It is a clump-forming plant to 2-3 feet tall with 1 foot wide rosettes of thick tight medium-green glossy leaves that are recurved and blushed with a pink color when first emerging and have large broad teeth along the margins. read more
Aloe mitriformis is a true Cape mountain and winter-rainfall species that has thick, short leaves that are arranged in a rosette style with short barbs along the outer edges and beautiful flowers. read more
