Winter-Blooming & Colorful Succulents

Winter-blooming aloes and a variety of colorful succulents

Winter-Blooming Aloes

Aloe Ferox Tangerine surrounded by other succulents

Your local SummerWinds has a wide variety of winter-blooming aloe plants, including these favorites:

'Blue Elf' Aloe

This heat-loving, waterwise aloe is easy to care for and perfect for small spaces! It thrives in poor soils and makes a great addition to rock gardens or containers. Evergreen with pale orange flower spikes.

'Little Gem' Aloe

Also known as aloe rudikoppe, this vibrant, low-growing succulent attracts hummingbirds with its brillant red-orange blooms throughout much of the year (aside from our hottest months).

Aloe 'Tangerine'

Aloe arborescens x Aloe ferox 'Tangerine' is a spectacular succulent tree with showy orange blooms. Drought-tolerant, once established and loved by hummingbirds. Makes a great addition to any desert garden or xeriscape design. 

Your local SummerWinds carries a variety of aloes with beautiful winter blooms. They are great way to add color and interest to your garden, and many of them can be used as a specimen to attract the attention of both your neighbors and hummingbirds!


Close up of an agave blue glow plantColorful Succulents

Aloes aren't the only way to add color to your winter garden. We carry numerous colorful succulents, including:

Agave 'Blue Glow'

This compact evergreen succulent boasts beautiful blue-green, chalky leaves with red margins that have a thin yellow-green ribbon of color right against it. This ribbon of color illuminates and appears to glow when the sun is behind it. Wonderful is containers or as an accent in any desert garden.

A closeup of bright red firestick succulent in garden

Euphorbia tirucalli 'Firesticks'

Commonly called Firesticks, this stems of this tall-growing, tree-like succulent can range in color from green to yellow, orange and red! Great as a specimen for in-ground or container planting.

Euphorbia trigona 'Rubra' 

Also known as an African Milk Tree and a Cathedral Cactus, this easy-to-care-for plant can grow up to eight feet tall with red to magenta colored leaves and green stems. Can be planted in-ground or grown in containers, indoors or out!

The Wide World of Succulents

Stop by your favorite SummerWinds store to explore our vast selection of colorful succulents today!  Learn more about the wide world of succulents.

A blooming aloe, a wide array of colorful succulents in a pot, and a small blooming succulent