Discover & Grow Aloe arborescens (Torch aloe & varieties) 

Do you grow Aloe arborescens (torch aloe)? Let us know your experiences and what you like best about it!

Namibian here! I grow a few varieties on my game farm, they sure look good in a xeriscape.❣

What a wonderful and pleasant video and narrative. Was looking for info as I just got a 15 year old plant today.

I like gold tooth aloe during flower! They are beautiful as well!

Debra, aloe vera in our Phoenix metro yard became invasive! This Fall, I discarded nearly 100 plants and hope to replant the area with lantana. I’m keeping a giant container with aloe vera instead.

Are these plants related to Kniphofia? Thanks.

Great video! Thank you for sharing. I love aloes- they’re probably my favorite group of succulents (caudiciforms are right up there with aloes on my list: aloes are #1 for beauty and caudiciforms are #1 for their “weirdness factor.”). I’m definitely no “aloe snob” and I practically drool when I see pictures of A. Arborescens on the bluffs at Laguna. I love how you’ve used them in your own garden, too! Do they need to be in the ground a while before they bloom? We’re in the “inland empire” area and there are far too few people planting aloes in their yards; consequently, we purchased one from a local nursery a few years ago as a way-overgrown 5-gal plant (many of the succulents and virtually all of the aloes at that nursery are overgrown for the size of their containers; I suppose it reflects on the fact that too few people in this area are buying succulents). Ours is going into its second winter in the ground and it has yet to bloom. I’m wondering if this might be a result of it being so pot-bound in its container? I cut the roots on the outside of the root ball before I planted it, but perhaps I should have been more vigorous in the way I did that? We have had a number of other aloes bloom in equally crowded pots before I got them planted- brevifolia, ‘Cynthia Giddy’, plicatilis, x nobilis, and others, so I’m wondering why the arborescens has been reluctant to bloom. Any thoughts? Off-topic, but related to pot-bound plants, we purchased a Kalenchoe beharensis at Rogers Gardens a number of years ago in a 1 or 2 gal pot. It was, of course, in great shape when we bought it but alas, I neglected to pot it up for a long time and it became stunted. I finally did pot it up a couple of years ago, but it’s been stunted ever since- I don’t think it’s had a leaf any longer than ~3” for years. I saw that you commented on your website that “Fang” prefers coastal conditions, but I don’t know if the same applies to the species? I’ve double-checked your books, but I didn’t find anything that might explain why it’s apparently so unhappy here in our inland area. We’re in a microclimate that’s almost completely frost-free: we grow fruiting mangoes and bananas and have grown papayas in the past. We’re up on a hill with excellent cold-air drainage to the valley below, so I don’t think cold is a factor. Your comment on. “Fang” preferring temps below 85 got me to wondering if that might be part of why it was so happy at Rogers and not so much here.

It's very pretty, it looks a lot like the Aloe Cameronii, except for the color, of course.

Thank you Deborah for sharing that is very gorgeous. I have quite few aloes myself they are ready to bloom.

Will these survive in South-West Florida? We definitely have the right temperature, but it might be too humid in the summer, my soil is quite sandy.

Wonderful video. Very informative. Here in South Texas, we really don't have too many problems with mites or agave snout beetles . They are there , but not they are not as prolific as they are in the west coast or southwest

I was just visiting Monterey and enjoyed seeing the stands of Aloe Arborescens along the coast. It's such a lovely plant!

Wonderful info and photos…thanks so much!

I really enjoy your video's 🎉❤