{"id":1104,"date":"2014-08-29T00:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2014-08-25T01:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:26:42","slug":"easy-aloe-vera-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/easy-aloe-vera-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to Grow  Aloe Vera Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/powerhouse_museum_photography\/2594337200\/\" title=\"Aloe Vera by Powerhouse Museum, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3073\/2594337200_9d18ca07da.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" alt=\"Aloe Vera\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere are around 200 African and 300-400 other species in the genus of Aloe flowering succulent plants. The best known and easiest to grow is Aloe vera, or &#8220;true aloe&#8221;. In the UK it is not frost hardy and is most frequently grown indoors.<\/p>\n<h3>Easy Growing Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Aloe <em>vera <\/em>are succulent plants made up from 90% water and hold the water for long periods.<\/li>\n<li>Aloe vera stores food, liquid and nutrients in its leaves to compensate for days when it does not have access to water. <\/li>\n<li>The leaves are thick to protect Aloe vera from drying out.<\/li>\n<li>Aloe vera plants have strong photosynthetic properties and will need more exposure to sunlight than regular plants.\n<li>In winter they do not need much water as they will grow much slower due to low light conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Aloe grow small plantlets as offsets to increase your stock. Also a young spikey stem will root quite easily to grow more plants to pass on to others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Aloe Vera Indoor Plants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are several uses for the Aloe sap but do not crop a young plant too often.<\/li>\n<li>Aloe <em>variegata<\/em> have a better leaf form with a triangular V section<\/li>\n<li>Aloe <em>brevifolia <\/em>forms a large rosette of leaves in little colonies of small plants<\/li>\n<li>Some aloe flower indoors but their shape and form is the main reason for their cultivation.<\/li>\n<li>Over watering can cause the thin roots to rot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aloe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1105 aligncenter\" title=\"aloe\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aloe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aloe.jpg 289w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/aloe-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Credits<\/p>\n<p>Aloe Vera by Powerhouse Museum CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nAlo\u00c3\u00ab Vera by Rutger Middendorp CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gemengdbedrijf\/2717624788\/\" title=\"Alo\u00c3\u00ab Vera by Rutger Middendorp, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3187\/2717624788_0204d5ebe0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Alo\u00c3\u00ab Vera\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Aloe vera plant has been grow in a mixed medium of gell to make a welcome novelty gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are around 500 species in the genus of Aloe flowering succulent plants. The best known and easiest to grow is Aloe vera, or &#8220;true aloe&#8221;. In the UK it is not frost hardy and is most frequently grown indoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-greenhouse-plants","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}