Trewidden Nursery is the first nursery that sell polyphylla at a decent price , got one of mine for £8 including P&P .
I think you are right , lets not forget that last summer didn`t get enough time for them to ripen properly .....do you had any loss ????
Guys a nice picture from the New Zealand aloe polyphylla see growing on the side of the road , some of them about 3 feet wide .
Sirius , I know for sure that on the Lesoto mountains there are other frost haqrdy aloes do you know any more frost hardy ?????
Sal, Aloe striatula Aloe aristata Aloe polyphylla All temperature hardy, but could do with keeping the rain off them.
Seen few more on silverhill cataloque , but not really pretty . few more from my collection . unknow aloe , really small aloe variety but really nice. and this is a different variety of aloe aristata
Sal, The Aloe in the first photo is Aloe juvenna Can get to 30cm tall approx and forms a nice clump. Your soil seems very peaty. It is better to add more grit and sand.
The grit is at the base , Just watered the plants but 60% sand , 30% potting soil and 10% peat , I`m actually rooting the plants ; )
Sal and I were chatting about this one in a private conversation. Aloe ciliaris You can't see in the photo. But there is a fringe of hairs at the base of each leaf, hence the name
And that is the one , I got , maybe a different variety of ciliaris or the different weather condition have made it like I was talking about .
sal, To be technical, this is variety tidmarshii (which at one point was recgnised as a vallid species but is now sunk under ciliaris). I have seen ciliaris far more robust (taller with bigger leaves) than the one in my photo.
