Your new plants look very nice, and you must have enjoyed choosing them.

Did you repot them yourself? I'm concerned about the pots. Do they have drainage holes? Are the plants double -potted or are they potted right in those pots? I don't mean to rain on your parade, but the soil concerns me too. It looks quite dark and damp.

in the second photo, the large one on the left is topsy turvy echeveria. they blood fairly easily and beautifully. the one on the right looks like echeveria perle von nurnberg. small one in the middle is probably some kind of sempervivum.

Aloe marlothii.

hi Socks,

The two in the white pots are double potted - they are in a small black pot with drainage holes, inside the white pot.

The soil is damp - they just watered them when I bought them... will dry out shortly.

Thanks all for the help and names :)

Agree with hoovb- Its looks very tree-like. I'd say marlothii or ferox

I say Aloe aculeata. Aloe marlothii (and sometimes ferox) seedlings have spines, but not with white bases... the bases of the spines those two species have are either dark, or more commonly, the exact same color of the leaf. As far as I know, Aloe aculeata is the only species with those classic white spine bases.

Agree palmbob, but ingrida's picture is not the same as OP's. OP's aloe has no white bases.

As well as the 'potential pot problems' that have been rightly mentioned, what kind of mix are they in? Double trouble here with tight double pots and the wrong mix! We can foresee another post asking how to save these guys as they will soon be ailing if things don't get amended. Sorry if we seem to be negative, but we're seeing it so often :-/

Gill