Plant of the Month – October
0Golden Toothed Aloe
Aloe nobilis
- Plant Form: Succulent
- Water Use: Very low
- Mature Size: 1-2 ft. tall x 3-4 ft. wide
- Exposure: Full sun, part sun, filtered sun
- Bloom Time: Spring (Mar – May), Summer (June – Aug)
- Native to: South Africa
- Hardiness: Cold hardy to 20°F
Want to liven up a small garden space with a tidy, spreading succulent that also attracts hummingbirds and butterflies? Golden Toothed Aloe fits that niche with its rosette-forming mounds and beautiful red-orange flowers in spring and summer.
Golden Toothed Aloe is a rosette-forming succulent that can create a mounded colony of close rosettes spreading up to 3-4 feet wide. Its fleshy leaves are bright green when grown in light shade, but turn orange when in full sun, making quite a display. Yellow to creamy white teeth line the edges of each leaf which glow when backlit. In summer, 2-foot-tall spikes of tubular orange flowers rise above the rosettes, attracting bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies to the show. In hot deserts, it needs afternoon shade to prevent burning the leaves. This vigorous succulent makes a unique small-scale groundcover, and looks great in beds and borders, rock gardens, succulent gardens, cactus gardens, and Mediterranean gardens. It is also happy in decorative containers.
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