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Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells'
   
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Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Succulent
Family: Aloeaceae (now Asphodeloideae)
Origin: South Africa (Africa)
Evergreen: Yes
Red/Purple Foliage: Yes
Flower Color: Orange & Pink
Parentage: (Aloe pearsonii x Aloe mitriformis)
Height: 3-4 feet
Width: 2-4 feet
Exposure: Full Sun
Summer Dry: Yes
Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 20-25° F
Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' - An upright growing shrubby succulent plant to 3 to 4 feet tall with short lanceolate gray-green leaves that blush maroon in full sun and produce a capitate head of pendent tubular flowers that are pink in bud and open to a soft pastel orange.

Plant in full sun to light shade (best foliage color with brightest light) in a well-drained soil and irrigate only occasionally to infrequently. We have had plants not damaged at 25° F and have seen reports that it is hardy to at least 20° F. This unique plant will make a nice addition in the garden planted in the ground or used as a potted specimen.

Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' is a hybrid created by Brian Kemble of the Ruth Bancroft Garden in 1991 that was the result of crossing the beautiful but slow growing, and somewhat difficult to cultivate Aloe pearsonii with the faster growing and easy to grow Aloe mitriformis, which at the time of the cross was called Aloe distans (or A. perfoliata var. distans). Aloe pearsonii hails from an area called Helskloof in the mountainous Richtersveld of the Northern Cape province of South Africa where it forms large colonies with upright columnar branches of stubby red-blushed leaves and the pollen parent Aloe mitriformis is a plant that grows along the coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

The cross made of these two geographically separated species resulted in a several similar hybrid plants that were distributed and this one was later named by John Trager at the Huntington Botanic Garden. It was distributed by the International Succulent Introduction (ISI) program in 2007 as ISI 2007-13 Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' and we have sold it since 2017. 

This information about Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.

 
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