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 ...

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 ...

A South African winter-blooming succulent species, aloe ferox can grow into a trunked shrub up to 15 feet tall, but it also excels as a slow-growing windowsill plant. Provide coarse, well-drained soil ...

The world of aloes is a large and complex one, with whole books on the subject. It is becoming more common to see a variety of attractive species populating nurseries, because aloes are tough and ...

Ferox is Latin for "ferocious," so when a plant’s specific (species) name is "ferox," you can be certain it’s armed with spines or thorns — which doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be cultivated. After all, ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study concerns both the variety of physical habitats occupied by an arid land plant species and the intermeshing of its geographical ...