Garden Aloes

tree Aloes with orange flowers (4)

Are you looking to add some orange color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 4 tree Aloes that are good candidates.

Aloe 'Goliath'

The moderately popular hybrid Aloe 'Goliath' is a tree-like aloe hybrid that grows 12+ feet tall with long broad medium green leaves that arch over and taper to a long narrow tip. read more

Aloe mawii

Aloe mawii is native to Malawi, Mozambique, and southern Tanzania and one of the shorter, almost shrubby tree-like aloes. This species grows to 6 feet tall, sparsely branched with a dense rosettes of 2 foot long red tinged grey-green leaves with reddish margins and orange-brown teeth. read more

Aloe barberae

Aloidendron barberae is Africa's largest aloe-like plant that grows into a tree ranging from 30 to 50 feet tall or more with upright-growing thick mottled gray stems. This South African native is a striking sculptural tree aloe with grey, smooth, bark bearing a rounded, neat crown and salmon pink flowers in winter. read more

Aloe tongaensis

Aloidendron tongaense (Aloe tongaensis) is a freely branching, heavy stemmed tree Aloe bears masses of puffy orange/apricot flowers in late winter. This medium-to-large sized tree aloe, with a rounded crown, growing to 9-12+ feet tall, looks very similar to both Aloe barberae and Aloe eminens. Aloe tongaensis has 18 inch long pale green rubbery leaves that often take on a orange hue during the cooler months of the year. read more

Aloes organized by flower color