Re: Aloe polyphylla

David, The grower or the Aloe polyphylla is Alan Beverly of Ecoscape in 
Santa Cruz, Alan has some growing next to the street at his Santa Cruz home. 
  His web site is http://www.scruz.net/~ecoscape/
  I've given many of these as thank you gifts to landscape architects, and 
garden designers for showing their gardens on my tours.  I also have some 
excellent photos of them in bloom on my photo album which can be reached via 
my web site, Rob Giehl
http://www.inspiringgardens.com


>From: david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: davidfeix@yahoo.com
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re: Additonal Aloes;A. polyphylla
>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001  23:45:49 -0800 (PST)
>on Margaret,
>
>I knew that Sean could come up with much more info,
>and one that we both failed to mention that is
>becoming quite popular here is Aloe polypylla-Spiral
>Aloe.  This is a specimen and/or container plant par
>excelence, stunning in a large container, looking more
>like a modern sculpture than a living plant, with a
>perfect spiral formation.  It is extremely tolerant of
>cold, taking snow in its native Drakensburg mountains
>habitat, and rather restricted in numbers.  A local
>grower(Alan Bloom?-can't remember his last name) in
>Santa Cruz discovered how to germinate this one, and
>it is now fairly widely available. (For folks in the
>Bay Area, you can usually find this,(as well as many
>other succulents) at The Dry Garden Nursery in
>Oakland, phone  510 547 3564.  Richard Ward (Dry
>Garden owner), often carries a good selection of Aloes
>and Brian Kemble's(Ruth Bancroft Garden) hybrids as
>well.
>
>Spiral Aloe does not like baking its roots in a
>container, you would need to keep it from getting too
>hot, as it will burn the roots.  In the ground, I have
>seen this reach almost 3 foot diameter, but I don't
>remember what the bloom is like.  If you only grow one
>Aloe, this might be a good candidate!
>
>
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