lilies and stapeliads for the aloe garden with photos.

This photo gallery is to show colourful lily flowers and succulent stapeliads with bizarre flowers which have the same needs as the aloes in the water saving garden. The succulent stapeliad plants have very odd and interesting flowers. They have been referred to as the orchids of the succulent plants. The lilies have mostly bright colored flowers as well as decorative leaves. The lilies seem fragile but most lilies are hardy and ideal for the aloe water saving garden.

[mesembs]

[gasteria]

[ cotyledons ]

[tylecodon]

[ kalanchoe ]

[asclepiads]

[ lilies ]

[ oxalis ]

Aloe secunda with a Quaqua mammillaris in flower (close-up on photo right). The bright green leaves of a young Tylecodon can be seen in the center back of the group.

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Huernia thureti

Most lilies species will grow well with aloes. Choose the lilies that fit your climate. Some lilies loose their leaves in the dry summer months others go dormant in the cold winter months but the Amaryllis is one which will keep leaves if it is watered throughout the year - provided the winter is mild.

Plant an assortment of bulbs to bloom at different times of the year. The aloes do not need much water so that the hardy lilies can stay in the ground year round.

This garden is easy to care for.

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A few lilies endemic to the Western Cape and Namaqualand, South Africa


Stapelia gariepensis


Stapelia variegata


	Caralluma lutea

Enhance the garden with asclepiads and lilies