Several overseas readers have commented on the lovely aloe blooms I feature now and then and some remark that while they have seen aloes, they have not seen them in bloom. With this is mind I want to show some of the flowers in my garden. The first shows an early stage of the flowering spikes pushing upward.
Here is the same aloe a few weeks later. The actual flowers haven’t opened yet.
We have several of these aloes growing all over the garden.
They will look really beautiful once their flowers have opened to welcome birds, bees and ants. Then there is this very tall aloe which is almost past its prime.
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A good demonstration of the life cycle
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Thank you Derrick.
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I’ve never seen such large aloe plants!
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I hope to show you more later on in the winter.
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Not a flower that you could walk past without noticing!
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They look even more beautiful once the individual flowers on the spikes open.
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Wonderfully exotic to my eyes. We can only grow them as houseplants.
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They need bright sunshine and require very little water in their natural habitat.
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A beautiful, stately flower. How tall do they get?
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Mature specimens of Aloe ferox typically reach a height of 6½ to 10 feet (2 to 3 m), but exceptionally tall specimens may be 13 feet (4 m) or more. I have one plant that is at least the latter height.
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That is tall!
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Hier by die Heksiehuis stoot hulle ook blomme. Ek is so bly. Die aalwyne se sonskyn vlamme in die vaal winter is ‘n geskenk.
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Ek glo ook so. Daar is baie aalwyne in die Oos-Kaap. Binne ‘n week of twee moet ek ‘n bietjie verder ry om fotos van hulle te neem.
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Geniet dit. Dis aaklig winderig by ons vandag. Dit loei so om die huis en ons het huis vol mense vir my jongste tante se 70e verjaardag. 🌝🙈
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Reblogged this on Wolf's Birding and Bonsai Blog.
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I’m sure these beautiful aloes are a magnet for birds and insects!
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Once the flowers open these flowers are ‘alive’ with visitors.
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Watching the visitors come and go is great entertainment on a lazy Sunday afternoon!
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Such rewarding plants to grew, Anne. I am not a very good gardener and as we go off caravanning so often my garden needs to thrive on neglect. My aloes are doing very well indeed and beginning to flower now too. They certainly bring great pleasure.
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Aloes thrive on neglect 🙂
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Baie mooi, ek sien my enkele aalwyn het ‘n iets wat opstoot – ek vermoed dit is ‘n blom
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Dit sal seker ‘n blom wees 🙂 🙂
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Sal foto neem
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I was one of those readers and this post amazes me to see the size of those Aloe blooms. It reminds me a little bit of the Yucca plants we used to have at our house years ago, but they were not that tall.
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I am happy to show you the flowers 🙂
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