Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bright red-orange aloe blooms - Mark Meredith/Getty Images Of all the reasons to grow an aloe vera plant — from its soothing gel ...

Visitors to the Ruth Bancroft Garden during the winter months are often amazed at the array of aloes in flower at this time of year, and many of these winter-bloomers come from South Africa. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aloes are basically the denim of the plant world. They’re hardy, cool-looking and exceptionally useful to boot (hello, sunburn ...

The soap aloe is just one of those plants that stir up a passion in gardeners and plant aficionados across the country. It’s known botanically as Aloe maculata, and at first glance, you would swear it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Along the Front Range, semi-arid growing conditions best suit plants that don’t constantly require the slaking of their thirst. And that makes aloes a ...

Q • My potted aloe plant produced babies in 2013. In the summer of 2014 it bloomed and then produced more babies. This is the first time I’ve ever seen one bloom. Will it flower every year now? A • It ...

Thousands of aloe flowers are in full bloom in Zhanjiang's Xuwen county, Guangdong province. Located in the south of Yingli village, the flowers come in 300 different types. [Photo/yinsha.com] ...

Aloe vera flowers contain chemicals that can be used to make eco-friendly data storage devices, such as pen drives, an IIT-Indore study says. The extraordinary discovery came during a research on ...

Everywhere you go along the southern edges of the Karoo, a slow-blooming colour splash straddles the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, brightening every north-facing hillside with colonies of ferocious ...

Visitors to the Ruth Bancroft Garden during the winter months are often amazed at the array of aloes in flower at this time of year, and many of these winter-bloomers come from South Africa. While ...