{"id":98264,"date":"2021-04-22T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=98264"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:10:02","slug":"spring-blooming-aloe-camperi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=98264","title":{"rendered":"spring-blooming Aloe camperi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUjNg9\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51131596566_b955561ea6_c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2797\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>from a single rosette, just budding up, flowers still unopened<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many, many great aloes.  A collector&#8217;s garden of aloes in zone 10 is a serious temptation.  As are agaves.  My desire skips like a stone across both these great groups of succulents, trying not to sink into a single-minded connoisseurship that this small but insatiably eclectic garden can&#8217;t support.   Blissfully ignorant is sometimes a useful state of mind when it comes to the wealth of aloes I could be growing.  The few I do know are astonishing enough, like Aloe camperi, which comes into bloom late spring.  The dead-of-winter blooming aloes are a miraculous sight, but an aloe that joins in with the freshness of spring growth, like Aloe camperi, has its own virtue of good timing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUn72Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51132046578_459924c3ef_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8185\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi &#8216;Cornuta&#8217; 3\/16\/18 at Huntington Botanical Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Huntington has a March-blooming form known as Aloe camperi &#8216;Cornuta,&#8217; which along with blooming a couple months earlier, has a strikingly different effect from the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUkZoT\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51131829131_7b7f020a1a_z.jpg\" alt=\"1U6A7485-X2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi 5\/31\/19 photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aloe camperi is featured prominently in Ray Valentine&#8217;s Atwater Village garden, and it holds up its end of the design bargain beautifully, used in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUkYzo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51131826376_60b5a58a71_z.jpg\" alt=\"1U6A7476-X2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi 5\/31\/19 photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it works beautifully whether blazing away en masse&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUpWtQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51132599774_ea478ebf67_b.jpg\" alt=\"1U6A7535-X2\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi 5\/31\/19 photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>or painting its torches into evocative vignettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUhuXX\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51131148157_4b12538427_b.jpg\" alt=\"1U6A7424-X2\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi 5\/31\/19 photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kUpWPz\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51132600919_5e08ffe21a_z.jpg\" alt=\"1U6A7420-X2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Aloe camperi 5\/31\/19 photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aloe camperi is one good aloe I&#8217;m getting to know (among the hundreds I don&#8217;t!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many, many great aloes. A collector&#8217;s garden of aloes in zone 10 is a serious temptation. As are agaves. 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