My Aloe Collection & How I Grow Them
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In this video I show my 8 aloes and discuss their origins and how to grow them.
Plants in order of video appearance...
Aloe vera
Aloe elgonica
Aloe mitriformis (perfoliata) or Aloe brevifolia
Aloe arborescens
Gonialoe variegata
Aloe humilis
Aloe 'Pink Panther'
x Gasteraloe 'Green Ice'
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They are all really pretty.
Thank you, Rachel, for sharing your wide knowledge of Aloa. Lovely video. regards Patrick
How lovely to hear from you again, Patrick, after do long. Hope you are keeping well.
Such a Beautiful Collection & I LOVE how you built staging so each plant can be seen.
Thank you and glad to hear you are back. Have a great weekend.
Thank you for sharing your Aloes with us 😊😊😊
My pleasure 😊
Ah, I’m going to straighten my aloe leaves right away. Thank you for the tip. Interesting info on aloes.👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you. Personally I find a little bit of horizontality on Aloe vera leaves is quite attractive but it can be too much sometimes. Good luck and enjoy what's left of your weekend.
The green ice hybrid is stunning ! I NEED one 🙂
It is a fabulous one!
Hi Rachel. So big collection and beautiful. Well done. Nice to hear that you did grow from seed aloe.
Hi George. I saw you recently did some aloe videos too. Thanks for watching and enjoy your weekend.
WONDERFUL video Rachel, you have a fantastic collection of beautiful Aloe's, your Aloe pink panther is a stunner, really BRILLIANT info you have shared, and your greenhouse is looking absolutely gorgeous too, all the Aloe arborescens and Aloe elgenica's I have grown from the seed you gave me a few years ago are growing so well, thanks so much for sharing this wonderful video, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to Wexford for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Hello Lyn and Hans. So nice to hear from you guys. I am glad the seeds did well for you but there was never any doubt with your amazing green fingers. Take care and have a great week xxx
Awesome aloe collections🙏
Thank you so much 😊
Love your collection and this video💕💕
Thank you. Much appreciated.
You have. Lovely collection
Thank you so much 😊
Pink Panther, aptly named and cute.
I love Aloes. I have a couple interesting stories to tell about them. Sometime in the nineties, I divided a large Aloe barbadensis, and had about a half dozen or so pups left over. I left those pups laying on the table in a south facing window, thinking to give them as gifts to friends or neighbors. Nobody happened by that wanted them, so they laid there on the table for about a year. The leaves got pretty thin, but, at the end of that time they were still green, so I potted them up. After about two months, I had a bunch of small plants to give away. Every one of them survived and grew. Aloes are really tough plants as long as they don't freeze.
About eight years ago I bought seeds on EBay of the Kelly Griffin hybrid Fang. Knowing that hybrid seed seldom breeds true, I tried them as an adventure. The result that no two seedlings are alike. The only thing they had in common was that the serrations along the leaves are some shade of red. If your Pink panther sets seed, I recommend that you plant it. The results may amaze you, but it should be a lot of fun.
That is a great story and I am very interested to learn your results with the hybrid seed. I will certainly sow the seed if mine ever sets it. Thanks for the tip and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
TA CLLECTION EST MAGNIFIQUE
Merci. J'ai ajouté des autres comme vous allez voir dans les vidéos suivantes.
Apreciei bastante seu cultivo e seus comentários. Percebe-se claramente em sua voz e em seu olhar todo o seu amor e dedicação por esses seres tão delicados.
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Lovely collection Rachel :) Aloes can generally take much colder temps If dry. In a few of the places where they naturally grow they'll often be exposed to a light frost in winter. Some of the smaller types also like a bit of shade and you'll often find them in dry thickets under shrubs.
Corbin
Thanks for the tips!
Appreciable collection and presentation too. To designate a single at top will be unjustice to remaining ones. Yes I like each aloe as it is, without comparison .
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment and I wish you a wonderful evening.
Aloe are very interesting succulents, I have several myself. I find Aloe vera a bit fussy, it does not enjoy full sun and does not enjoy much watering either. Arborescens is a lot more vigorous and very showy. It makes tall and dense edges and when they bloom in autumn they are fantastic. I have a few in bud at present. I have green ice but it is small, very slow grower. I do not remember if I have the variegated one, I don't think so and I cannot check right now because it is dark but I don't think I do. Yours is looking gorgeous!!! Thank you for the update and have a great weekend ❤️
Good afternoon, Fernanda. It seems we are both in the aloe apprecaition club although you would, no doubt, get away with growing many a lot better than I ever could. I am always in awe at the succulents that can be grown outdoors in Lisbon when I visit. I just noticed after the video that my variegated aloe has a bud forming so I will look forward to that. Thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
The Aloe you called A. brevifolia in the beginning of the video is in fact Aloe Mitriformis. The Aloe Brevifolia has very small and compact blue rosettes. Although the rosettes are small, the plant grows multiple heads and forms a mound of bluish rosettes all tightly packed together.
great video. have you considered doing one on native Irish plants in your garden?
Thank you for the suggestion. I will bear it in mind.
They hawe a very beautiful and long flover spikes.Haw do you keep the greenhouse free of exses humidety? Thank you for shering!🌱
The door of the greenhouse is left open every day. Humidity is high all the same, currently at 76%
I may have to get a green ice.
Maybe so 😊
Hello, I love your show, it’s awesome. I was wondering if you have any adeniums? I’d love to have a show dedicated to adeniums, one of my favorite indoor plants. Thank you
Sadly I have no adeniums, obviously a gap in my collection!
Thanks for watching and contributing and have a great day.
lovely to see your Aloes and plant collection
Aloe arborescens, I am not sure why it got the specific epithet arborescens , I normally see it growing on cliff edges and i would describe it as more scrubby than a tree . It is a very popular hedge plant in South Africa . The common name is Krantz Aloe which is cliff in Afrikaans and this is well named as I invariably see it on cliffs when looking for succulents . One of the easiest to grow from cuttings
My favourites would be hard to pick but if I had to choose a top five it would be Aloe marlothii ,Aloe striata, Aloe reynoldsii , Aloe thraskii which are all South African and then Aloe castilloniae which is from Madagascar . All of these would be great in pots
Ooh, those first two look gorgeous and the Madagascar one is a mad looking fellow. I will have to look out for plants or seed. Aloe (at least the ones I grew) is easier from seed than one might have thought. Hmm, I did fail with A. polyphylla from seed a while back though.
Thanks for watching and your feedback. Always appreciated.
Your gasteria, at around 16:25 - did you know it's called Gasteria "Little Warty"?! Hilarious! Kelly Griffin lives in my home county/town actually. San Diego!
Ah yes, Little Warty. I didn't know the name when I made this video but I've since learnt. A great name for a cute plant!
Are those all “species Aloes” or are some of those hybrid Aloes? Thanks! Kate in Iowa
Hi there. If you look at the names on the screen, any written with single quotes around the last word in its name is a hybrid.
Where did you get seeds for aloe trees?
I don't know where you are based but a lot of specialist seed nurseries in Europe stock aloe seeds.
Aloe Rachel. (Sorry, that was rubbish!) I wish I could grow succulents but I’d need another greenhouse with different conditions. There’s just so many fabulous plants out there. I’ll just have to content myself with your lovely collection. 😀🤷♂️🤔
Aloe, Jeff 😊 Yes, my greenhouse has quite a different range to yours, much cooler. I guess we can't grow everything but we can always look and yearn. Thanks for watching and have a nice day.
@@GardeningatDouentza Oh how I yearn...
@@Grow_Up_Man55 😂 We all do 😂
Doupage vivien
@5:30, it looks more like an a kedongensis
Okay. I hope not!
A-low, not aloha.
the true aloe vera you showed look green my aloe vera is true also but has a blue hue with white ferina could one of whos ever be babradenssis miller.cheers.