Kniphofia 'Bressingham Sunbeam'
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Kniphofia 'Bressingham Sunbeam' $9.95• common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
• flowering season: July - August
• height: 2 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: upright and narrow 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
• Other points of interests: a lower growing torch lily with unusually colored flowers
'Bressingham Sunbeam' is one of our less popular kniphofias, possibly because its flowers are neither a light and delicate color, nor a bright and flashy hue. However, I can understand why Alan and Adrian Bloom of their famous nursery in England chose this flower. Its colors are an unusual amber yellow, lightly brushed in a reddish-tan. The height is lower than the average kniphofia, at about two feet. It blooms in July and August.