Plant in full sun in a well-drained. Our plants have not been through an extremely cold year, so we only know that this plant is hardy to around 30° F but based on its parentage it should prove a bit cold hardier than this.

This unusual plant is an open pollinated hybrid that was selected at our nursery from plants grown from seed taken from a Aloe sabaea that was growing at Aloes in Wonderland, the Santa Barbara garden of cycad specialist Jeff Chemnick. It had many other aloes growing around it so we can only speculate what the pollen parent could be. Several other seedlings were also selected for evaluation but this one with abundant flowers is one of the showiest with large golden flowers in huge branching panicles that rise above the attractive foliage. We also selected on we call Aloe 'Yemeni Orange' that also has large sprays of flowers but they are large light orange in color. The parent species, Aloe sabaea, is a small tree aloe with orange flowers that grows in Yemen and it was for this reason we decided to call these plants 'Yemeni Gold' and 'Yemeni Orange'. 

The information about Aloe 'Yemeni Gold' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.