.png) Kniphofia 'Goldmine'
- 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. We are holding off on offering 'Goldmine' until 2013 because there's not a lot of it here even though we have had it for about twenty years. 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. |
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