 Kniphofia 'Glow' $10.95
- common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
- flowering season: midsummer
- height: 2 to 3 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
Flowers of a solid coral red in mid summer on stems of two to three feet. In the photograph there are two spikes of 'Glow,' the one on the left being younger. Within a couple of days it will look exactly like the flower-spike on the right. To help this settle into a new home, winter protection is recommended for its first winter. It will rebloom in fall. Another name for this is 'Coral Glow.' USDA Zones 6 - 10. |
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