Aloe plants for sale, clumping to tree form
Aloe plants for sale in container sizes from 3 gallon to 48 inch box. The range includes Aloe ferox, marlothii, bainesii, vaombe, aculeata and africana, along with hybrids such as Hercules and Medusa. These are landscape aloes rather than the potted aloe vera grown on a windowsill.
Aloes earn their place by flowering in winter, when a succulent bed otherwise has nothing going on. Spikes of red, orange and coral come through the coldest months and bring hummingbirds with them.
Siting aloe: sun, drainage and slopes
Aloes want the same sharp drainage and low water as agave, but tolerate part shade noticeably better, which widens where they can go. On a slope they are genuinely useful, knitting into the bank and holding soil between rock on a grade that is awkward to irrigate.
Set them among boulders and top dress with landscape rock, keeping the stone just clear of each crown rather than piled against the stem.
Aloe plant care in plain terms
Aloe plant care is mostly drainage and restraint. Give them full sun to light shade, plant high so the crown sits above finished grade, and water deeply but infrequently once the roots have taken hold. Almost every loss in this climate comes from water sitting at the base in heavy soil through winter, not from a plant going thirsty in July.
Feed sparingly or not at all. Cut spent flower spikes once they brown, and leave the dried lower leaves on a tree aloe if you want the natural skirt rather than a clean trunk. In a hard frost the tips of the softer species can scorch, and they come back on their own by spring.
Different types of aloe plants
The different types of aloe plants listed above fall into three working groups. Low clumping aloes such as Blue Elf and the Safari hybrids stay under a couple of feet and are used in drifts, along borders and on slopes. Mid size species like Aloe vanbalenii and Aloe capitata hold a single rosette at eye level in a bed. Tree aloes, including Aloe bainesii, ferox, marlothii and Hercules, build a trunk over years and finish as the focal point of the planting.
Flower timing is the other axis worth choosing on. Stagger a few species and the bed carries colour from late autumn through into early spring instead of peaking for three weeks.
Where to buy an aloe plant near me
If you are searching for an aloe plant near me in Southern California, the stock here is grown locally and hardened off outdoors, so it goes into a bed already used to the sun and the water it is going to get. Every aloe plant for sale on this page shows its live price by container size, and larger or matched specimen sets are quoted rather than carted.
One thing worth saying plainly: a search for an aloe vera plant near me is usually after Aloe vera itself, the medicinal species grown in pots. That is not what is stocked here. These are landscape aloes, chosen for structure and winter flower in the ground. Compare agave and yucca and dasylirion, or see the full nursery plants range.
