Aloe arborescens 'Lutea' - Golden Torch Aloe
http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?cat_id=10&plant_id=1906&page=6
click on this link and have a look at this elegant plant.
Lutea doesn't grow quite as large as the red-flowered variety, and is less often seen. Probably because there aren't as many available for free cuttings---most of us acquired our aloes from someone's yard.
Mine came from the old Goodhue house on Pichacho Lane through the hands of a neighbor . She grew a huge hedge of a. aborescens . We harvested the rosettes with a machete --20 or 30 rosettes. I took them home; they thrived .Cuttings from those plants have travelled to 2 other houses.
Today a new hummingbird found them -- a black-chinned male, making his rounds.(see him here http://www.bird-friends.com/BirdPage.php%3Fname%3DBlack-Chinned%2520Hummingbird)
Hummingbirds are very methodical which isn't something you'd expect from such a fizzy bird. Around here, the same bird visits the same flowers at the same time everyday. All he needs is a bowler hat and an umbrella.
