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. 

Information displayed on this page about Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.