Aloe flowers in the yard December

lzrddr

11 years ago

Some shots of December flowers in my own yard

Aloe suprafoliata

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11 years ago
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Hello Linda I live in Alexandria, Egypt (a climate very similar to costal parts of southern California) and I casually keep few plants. I have been having an Aloe Vera colony for many years now (about 20 years), and to my surprise , I have had one of the old plants shoot a lovely flower. The point is: I grow them in a balcony, so there will probably not be birds or insects to pollinate it. I have thought of using a brush to pollinate it (I am really eager to grow little ones from seed), but I don't know how effective would this be, and if there is any specific technique to do that other than merely passing the brush over the anther and the stigma of same flower/ neighbouring flowers. I have ONLY ONE PLANT in bloom, and I am worried it would not self polinate. Can you give me any idea on that?
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Thanks!.I'm over here in the eastbay,Hayward. I think the Hercules flowers are the only pics on the net.No matter how much i looked,didnt find any.So,even i was wondering what they were going to be like! My advice to anybody is if you want a branching tree Aloe-Hercules might be the hardiest.If you want a tree Euphorbia cactid,E abysinnica might be the hardiest of those and E.ammak the fastest growing(haven't tried E.ingens)and almost the same in cold hardyness.E.ingens could be best of all.A neighbor planted a 6" dish garden plant 5 or 6 years ago and its a very bushy 6' now. I didnt see a bit of damage from the freeze on it..and they have it in the middle of the front yard-no cover whatsoever. Global or urban or both warming has really added to the menu of tropicalia to be grown in the bay area. If it keeps us above 32..the sky's the limit..
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Thanks andrew78. :) I'm not sure if the seedlings can have the same fruit quality as the parent. I've read that it can be different from the parent quality wise, which is another reason why they graft, to make sure that the tree will give high quality fruit. I'm actually not planning on grafting them. The carrie is somewhat a dwarf mango, compared to the haden. The haden can grow pretty big, but not huge. In fact, my trees in the photos above might not be mine for much longer. My parents want to sell the house. I'm taking the grafted mamey and those mango seedlings with me to whatever home we move into. I'm going to make sure that the yard is bigger than my current one. :) I'm not worried, I can always by more grafted mango trees. This time it will be a valencia pride and carrie mango, which I heard are even better than haden. I might get another haden or a glenn. Lets see. Jfernandez: I've read that mangoes can take 3-6 years to grow fruit from seed. http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mango.html I trim my haden, usually towards the bottom of the tree to allow more head room when I mow the lawn. The sides are trimmed a bit and the top is untouched. The pantin mamey seedling is approximately 2 years old.
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Yes, pansies are winter entities here. I've put a few out front a couple weeks ago. And a few purple cabbages too! IDK what kind of Azaleas those are, I really don't like them. I do a lot in Mom's yard, but the Azaleas are all her doing. The weather here is at the mercy of wind direction. When it blows up from the gulf of Mexico, it's warm, windows open weather. But when Canada leaves the door open, it can get down to single digits. Let's hope our great neighbors up north are more fastidious this winter about keeping that door shut!
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lzrddr
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11 years ago
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Aloe tongaensis (a bit of aloe mite.. sorry)
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
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Colleen E
11 years ago
Thank you for sharing. The Aloe bellatula blooms really get me. So perfect.
hoovb zone 9 sunset 23
11 years ago
Yes that bellatula is bella!

The brown bits are the Aloe mite damage? :(
cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
11 years ago
Bella, bella, molto bene!
Laura Robichaud
11 years ago
WOW!
lzrddr
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11 years ago
mite damage is the dead flowers and the 'rough areas' along the peduncle. Here is a shot of a separate flowering attempt on the same plant, showing severe mite damage, and, obviously, a completely failed attempt to make flowers.
nil13
11 years ago
damn mites
stanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
11 years ago
My biggest Aloe mistake- and I have made a few- was giving away my potted A.suprafoliata. When I saw a big one a few years later in bloom at the Berkeley Botanical Garden? I was crushed..well,almost! Magnificent Aloe.
Next time..I buy,and maybe three!
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
my A. suprafoliata is still in its juvenile stacked stage. Nice to see the flower and what I have to look forward to.
aloebot
11 years ago
Pictures of A.suprafoliata flowers can't do them justice. Had to get one after 1st seeing mass blooms at the Huntington years ago. They are an unusual pink with silver blue icey highlights. Each perianth is as much as 2" long. My plants declined after a couple years at maturity. Not sure why. Starting with new ones again after some years.
paul_
11 years ago
Beautiful aloe flowers there, Geoff. Get many hummers avisiting?
lzrddr
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11 years ago
I get a few ... here's one taking a rest
Dzitmoidonc
11 years ago
Oh man, first the beautiful Aloes, then the Hummer? Enough to make me cry.

By the way, those of you who think the bella is the best are wrong, wrong, wrong. Suprafolia has it all. The leaves are worthy of an ode, the flowers before they open inspire you to song. The blue overlapped, delicately edged floral scales stop you in mid thought. The flowers after they open are second in the Aloe universe only to A. praetoriensis. (The looks of the 2 species is very similar, but the supra has nicer foliage.) These are not opinions, but facts. ;)

lzrddr, if I get a good pic of A. preatoriensis bloom, can i post it here? I don't want to dirty up your thread.
lzrddr
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11 years ago
of course... mine has failed to bloom the last 3 years for some reason, but here is a shot of the years before that.
lzrddr
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11 years ago
here's the plant from a distance... pretty impressive flower stalk.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
Yes it is! I like it's supposed cold hardiness. I still have to carry it in and out. Just fewer nights.

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