Red Hot Poker Plant Rhs
Flower Colour: Cream, Red, Orange, Yellow. Foliage Colour: Green. Flowering Period: July & August. Soil Type: Normal/Loam. Soil Moisture: Moist, but well drained. Red hot pokers are grown for their distinctive, usually tall, upright flowers or ‘pokers’. Kniphofia ‘Atlanta’ has ‘pokers’ that are made up of small orange-red flowers at the top of the ‘poker’ and creamy-yellow flowers at the base. Plant Family: Kniphofia - Red Hot Pokers: Exposure: Full Sun: Season of Interest: Summer (Early,Mid,Late) Fall: Height: 2' – 3' (60cm – 90cm) Spread: 1' – 2' (30cm – 60cm) Spacing: 18' – 24' (45cm – 60cm) Water Needs: Average: Maintenance: Average: Soil Type: Loam, Sand: Soil pH: Acid, Neutral: Soil Drainage: Moist but Well-Drained: Characteristics: Showy, Evergreen.
Kniphofia 'Royal Standard'
Red-hot pokers make rewarding and often long-lived garden plants. Their distinctively-shaped blooms are among the most spectacular of hardy flowers, and their long season means that by careful plant choice gardeners can enjoy them between spring and late autumn.
red hot poker
This perennial dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring.
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: July to August
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Tall bright and imposing, kniphofias lend height, vibrancy and drama to any garden. 'Royal Standard' produces spikes of bright yellow tubular flowers, scarlet in bud, above clumps of evergreen, strap-like leaves. Originally from South Africa, the elegant, torch-like flowers of kniphofia make vertical accents in a sunny border and look particularly good as part of a scheme based on 'hot' colours. They also look great with a background of ornamental grasses. An easy and undemanding plant. - Garden care: In autumn remove and compost the faded flower spikes and apply a deep dry mulch such as pine needles around the crown of the plant. Avoid excessive winter wet and cut back to the ground in spring to keep the foliage fresh-looking. Divide and replant overcrowded colonies in spring.
Goes well with...
- Anemanthele lessoniana
- Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
- Helenium 'Waltraut'
- Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
Red Hot Poker Plant Rhs Plants
Kniphofia 'Royal Standard'
red hot poker
This perennial dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring.
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: July to August
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Tall bright and imposing, kniphofias lend height, vibrancy and drama to any garden. 'Royal Standard' produces spikes of bright yellow tubular flowers, scarlet in bud, above clumps of evergreen, strap-like leaves. Originally from South Africa, the elegant, torch-like flowers of kniphofia make vertical accents in a sunny border and look particularly good as part of a scheme based on 'hot' colours. They also look great with a background of ornamental grasses. An easy and undemanding plant. - Garden care: In autumn remove and compost the faded flower spikes and apply a deep dry mulch such as pine needles around the crown of the plant. Avoid excessive winter wet and cut back to the ground in spring to keep the foliage fresh-looking. Divide and replant overcrowded colonies in spring.
Goes well with...
- Anemanthele lessoniana
- Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
- Helenium 'Waltraut'
- Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'