Aloe vera is considered an easy-care houseplant. Many know it for its healing gel, but few have seen its flowers. Under the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, to get any plant to bloom, the growing conditions have to be just right. Want to get your aloe vera to flower? Follow ...

Most of us are fairly familiar with aloe vera, especially during sunburn season. But did you know there are more than 400 species of these winter bloomers? What all aloes have in common are rosettes ...

As this is the time of year when Aloe vera is in bloom, the story of how this plant arrived in our hemisphere is worth telling. Native to the rocky soil of the southern Arabian Peninsula — Saudi ...

Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. His monthly column focuses on drought-tolerant plants and dry gardens. Aloes are well-known for the fiery colors they add to winter ...