Re: Aloe site?
Nan Sterman wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a website with good basic info on different kinds of
> aloes?
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> Thanks
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> Nan
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> Nan Sterman
> San Diego County California
> Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
Hi Nan,
I can't help with a web site, but I can recommend a very good book: "Dry
Climate Gardening With Succulents", by Debra Folsom, James Folsom, John
Trager, Joe Clements, and Nancy Scott,(of the Huntington Botanical Gardens)
Pantheon Books, Knopf Publishing, New York, 1995. Great pictures of
different species and cultivars grown in So. Cal. Good descriptions and
cultural advice as well.
There is another: "Guide To The Aloes of South Africa" by Ben-Erik Van Wyk
and Gideon Smith, Briza Publications, South Africa, 1996. This is valuable
because it groups the aloes according to their growing habit and helps you
determine what you've got: tree,single-stemmed, multi, creeping, speckled,
dwarf, grass, etc. etc. However it describes and pictures many many aloes
that you and I will never hear of, let alone see. I don't need to go that
deeply! Nor do I care that the botanists are still fighting as to whether
they are Liliaceae, Asphodelaceae, or their own family, Aloacea!
But I am very fond of several of them and am trying to learn as much as I
can like you. I'd like to hear about any that you've acquired and what you
think about them. Anyone else as well? Jan
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Jan Smithen, gardening teacher
California Arboretum Foundation
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10
Visit the California Arboretum homepage at :
http://www.arboretum.org/
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