Kniphofia 'Susan Wray'

• common names: torch lily,  red-hot poker
• flowering season: July - August
• 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:
• 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: introduced by us for spring of 2012