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 ...

In Athol Fugard’s 1978 play, A Lesson From Aloes, the aloe is used allegorically as a tool for trying to establish a sense of place in a country with so much racial conflict. In isiXhosa, Aloe ferox ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q I was told that there was a plant of Aloe ...

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Ferox means ‘’ferocious,’’ so this spiny aloe from South Africa is well named. It’s a trunk-forming species that grows up to 15 feet tall on sandy sites in sun. This cold-hardy plant bears gorgeous ...

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