Are you looking to add some orange color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 9 single-head-stemless Aloes that are good candidates.
This perennial, stemless and generally solitary succulent native to Zimbabwe is a large and showy outdoor plant in frost-free zones. Be sure give this attractive aloe with its yellow to reddish orange flowers a place in your garden. A distinctive South African species grown partly for its ornamental spiny foliage, partly because of its colorful flowers and partly due to its far greater than average cold tolerance. read more
Aloe buhrii (Elias Buhr's Aloe) is a wonderful landscape plant from South Africa with toothless, soft, rubbery, mildly spotted leaves and winter flowers of orange, yellow or red. read more
Aloe chabaudii (Dwala Aloe) is an easy-to-grow, clustering perennial succulent that forms large colonies of gently spreading, turquoise green rosettes. It is a robust, attractive, generally stemless, fast growing aloe with very showy flowers in winter. read more
Native to Namibia, Aloe hereroensis is an attractive 'medium-small' glaucous, pale blue-green aloe, usually solitary or with only a few rosettes in a clump that has 'fat', upward curving leaves with white linear flecking. read more
Aloe lavranosii is a solitary or occasionally offsetting Arabian aloe Aloe from southern Yemen with broad, bluish-purplish leaves and a branched inflorescence with unusual, green or red flowers that are densely covered in white hairs. read more
Aloe microstigma is a very attractive and relatively common South African species with lots of speckles of leaves and wonderful leaf as well as flower colors. One of the most floriferous Aloes in South Africa, Aloe microstigma is a medium size, easy, relatively fast growing plant, tolerating summer watering and some shade, as well as poor soils. read more
Aloe scobinifolia is a small, stemless Aloe from Somalia with rough (sort of like shark skin), upright and unbendable, toothless leaves of a dull, pale olive-green. read more
Aloe spicata is an impressive looking, fast-growing, plant with big graceful curving leaves. It's a South African native that grows on a trunk as a shrub to 4 to 6 feet tall and can be solitary but more often clusters. This sounds a lot like many other tree aloes, but Aloe spicata is branching which sets it apart. read more
These Aloes hail from Saudi Arabia and Yemen and endure Arizona heat as well as Aloe vera. This is an very common aloe in it's native habitat, where it typically grows as a stemless, solitary upright pale green to pale blue-green plant with thick, short leaves. read more
