Aloe variegata still alive outside......

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Aloe variegata still alive outside......

Post by TimMAz6 » Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:20 pm

I dug up all my Aloe variegata except one back in December................I noticed today that it's still alive. How cool is that. The snows must have protected it against the cold nights. It's good to see that it can tolerate our cold/wet conditions.

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Post by DesertZone » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:19 pm

That is so cool Tim! 8)
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Post by TimMAz6 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:43 am

kinda cool that it survived being buried under snow for 2 weeks. I'll have to bury it again since our temps will be dropping soon.
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Post by lucky1 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:27 am

survived being buried under snow for 2 weeks.
and not a mark on it from the moisture. :D
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Post by DesertZone » Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:32 pm

Tim, these kind of look the same, are they?

These lived through the "big freeze" in Sunsites AZ.
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Post by TimMAz6 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:03 pm

do you have a close up photo? It kinda reminded me of A. saponaria but I don't think that Aloe is saponaria. I grea saponaria and it's hardy too.......seemed to do fine in the low 20's. Here's a website from AZ on saponaria.......funny thing is that they claim it's not hardy below 32F but mine was surprisingly hardy. I can only imagine Aloes in AZ are at least a 1/2 zone if not a fully zone hardier? Perhaps not if it's too warm in winter.

http://ag.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/ar ... naria.html
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Post by DesertZone » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:12 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:do you have a close up photo? It kinda reminded me of A. saponaria but I don't think that Aloe is saponaria. I grea saponaria and it's hardy too.......seemed to do fine in the low 20's. Here's a website from AZ on saponaria.......funny thing is that they claim it's not hardy below 32F but mine was surprisingly hardy. I can only imagine Aloes in AZ are at least a 1/2 zone if not a fully zone hardier? Perhaps not if it's too warm in winter.

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They could be Tim, I can see now they are different than variegata. All the ones like that I seen there were small 10inches high?
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Post by TimMAz6 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:42 pm

10" high seems too small for A. saponaria...............saponaria seemed to grow larger than that here. That Aloe you spotted is probably not variegata or saponaria but closely related. :?:
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