Kniphofia 'Goldmine'
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Kniphofia 'Goldmine'• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
• flowering season: summer
• height: 2½ - 3½ feet
• Light requirements: full sun, half a day of sun will do
• Soil requirements: average to rich and well drained
• Water requirments: will survive in a dry landscape although it will grow better and flower more profusely with a weekly deep watering during summer
• Growth habit: a slowly widening clump of grass-like leaves
• How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer
• Leaf type: linear, upright leaves
• Ways to use it: grows well with other flowering perennials in a sunny garden
• Special characteristics: its upright, spiky flowers have lots of character and are a focal point among other flowering plants, especially contrasting nicely with mounding and cushion shaped perennials
In July and August come these golden flowers saturated in a cinnamon amber, in a warmly burnished, sunny hue. Their height is two and half feet to three and a half feet. USDA Zones 6 - 9, and to zone 10 in the West. Our plants are propagated by dividing them, that guarantees the offspring are the color they should be even though many fewer can be produced than if they were grown from seeds. Our original stock of this came from Carroll Gardens in Westminster, Maryland.
In 1995, Heronswood Nursery offered seedlings of 'Goldmine.' To quote their catalog's description of the flower, “striking golden yellow heads of flowers dazzle when highlit by the sun in late evening, effective in both hot schemes as well as with . . . summer blues.” As Alan Bloom explains in his book, Alan Bloom's Hardy Perennials, seedlings of named hybrids of Kniphofia will mostly not come true. So unfortunately, there is no certainty of what the flower colors will be when growing seedlings of the named varieties. Only by propagating them vegetatively, such as dividing a plant, can you be certain of the colors.
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