ConroeJoe wrote > I have to brag about Aloe cooperi, a deciduous Aloe. Congratulations. The grass aloes (so-called because they tend to grow in grass and look like clumps of grass) are considered fairly hard to grow outside a preferred climate, which from my reading is warm but not hot in summer, fairly moist, and quite cool and dry in the winter - but not with extended freezing temperatures. In other words, I would think summers like in northern North America, the Pacific Northwest, and Europe, and winters like the southwestern USA. They are frequently just winter annuals here in Phoenix. I haven't heard of any aloes that are self-fertile. They are, however, able to set seed with almost any other aloe species or hybrid, which is why seed from a garden with lots of aloes is rarely true to the female parent. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA