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Aloe Mighty Sunset
Aloe hybrid
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Aloe Mighty Sunset - Aloe hybrid
Orange and red flower spikes in the cool months are the reason to plant Aloe Mighty Sunset, rising above a compact plant of thick, fleshy leaves and bringing honeyeaters in for the nectar. It is a garden hybrid, not a wild species, and it goes in where heat, drought, coastal wind and thin soil rule out softer perennials. Repeated in groups it gives a dry garden a consistent, sculptural ground layer that stays low all year.
Why Aloe Mighty Sunset
Winter flower spikes: Upright spikes of tubular orange to red flowers open when little else in a dry garden is in bloom.
Compact scale: At 0.5 to 1m tall and wide it holds its size without trimming, so a group reads as a consistent planting.
Drought and heat tolerance: Its fleshy leaves hold a reserve of water, so an established plant goes weeks through summer without irrigation.
Coastal resilience: A waxy leaf surface sheds salt spray that browns the foliage of most flowering perennials.
Armed leaves and bitter sap: The leaf edges carry short marginal teeth and the yellow sap under the skin is a purgative that makes pets ill if chewed, so site it back from paths and out of reach of dogs and cats.
Ideal Applications
Dry gravel gardens: Drifts of it through a scoria or gravel mulch make a low, textured layer that runs on rainfall once settled.
Hot western beds: Against a west facing wall it takes the full afternoon heat that scorches leafy shrubs.
Exposed coastal frontages: A reliable flowering choice for open, sandy sites within reach of sea spray.
Wide bowls and planters: Its compact rosettes suit broad, shallow containers of gritty mix on sunny terraces.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1 to 1.5m, so each plant keeps its own outline
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn, in warm, dry weather
Soil & Drainage: Sandy or gritty, free draining soil; on clay it goes high on a bank or in a rockery pocket, where winter rain runs off instead of pooling at the base
Establishment Care: Water in well at planting, then every week or two through the first summer, letting the soil dry out between drinks. Once settled it needs water only in a prolonged drought, and spent flower stalks are cut off at the base when they finish. It tolerates a light frost, but a hard frost marks the leaves and spoils the winter spikes, so in cold districts give it the warmest, most sheltered position.
Plant Details
Height: 0.5 to 1m
Width: 0.5 to 1m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen succulent rosettes
Light: Full sun
Native to: Garden hybrid; the genus is native to Africa, Madagascar and the Arabian Peninsula
Flower Colour: Orange to red, tubular, on upright spikes in the cooler months
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
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We Deliver
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We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







