 Kniphofia 'Candlelight' $10.95
- common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
- flowering season: June and again at the end of summer
- height: 3 to 4 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 weekly deep watering during summer
- Growth habit: a slowly widening clump
- How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer
- Leaf type: narrow and moderately long
- Ways to use it: grows well with other flowering perennials in the sunny garden; grows well in a large pot on a terrace or deck where it will attract hummingbirds up close to you house
- 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; it doesn't need much care once planted other than regular watering; gardeners in climates colder than USDA Zone 6 should give it winter protection such as covering with a mulch or a large basket turned upside down and weighed down with a large rock on top
- Other points of interests: its flowers produce lots of nectar that attracts both hummingbirds and various songbirds that will cling to the stems to sip the nectar
'Candlelight' -- Lemon yellow flowers on three to four-foot stems in June with more flowers appearing towards fall. There are two different kniphofias with this name. We have both. The one illustrated here was named by Bloom's of Bressingham long before the second one appeared. The second is more recently introduced from a nursery in Georgia, and was given a plant patent, believe it or not ! They are nothing like one another. The second is not this lemon color, but is more ivory colored and is shorter. It is a good plant, but why was it allowed to be given this name ? There is more than a little confusion with the naming of these plants. USDA Zones 6 - 10. |
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