.png) Kniphofia 'Coral' $9.95
- common names: red-hot poker, torch lily
- flowering season: early 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 requirements: will survive in a dry landscape although it will grow better and flower more profusely with regular watering during summer
- Growth habit: grows in a clump
- How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer
- Leaf type: upright, coarsely pointed leaves
- Special characteristics: early blooming and more cold hardy
- Other points of interests: its flowers produce lots of nectar that attract both hummingbirds and various songbirds
Blooming in early summer, the coral colored flowerheads reach a height of three to four feet. Given to us generously by Deborah
Whigham and Gary Ratway of Digging Dog Nursery some years ago. Very robust and surviving a greater degree of cold, to USDA Zone 5. |
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