Red Hot Poker Plant Rhs
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With their unusual shapes and brilliant colors, Kniphofias (Red Hot Pokers) and Sea Hollies (Eryngium bourgatii) are wonderful herbaceous perennials to combine in beds and borders. This perennial combination enjoys a long season of interest, is attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds, is deer and rabbit resistant, and drought tolerant. Genus Kniphofia may be evergreen or herbaceous perennials, with linear or strap-shaped leaves and erect stems bearing a dense raceme of tubular, usually pendent flowers Details K. Rooperi is an evergreen perennial to 1.2m, with long, arching angled leaves and dense rounded spikes of tubular bright red flowers fading to yellow, in autumn. This is an easy and undemanding plant. Join the RHS today and get 12 months for the price of 9 Join now.
Red Hot Poker Plant Rhs Plant
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.
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- 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...
Red Hot Poker Plant Uses
- Anemanthele lessoniana
- Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
- Helenium 'Waltraut'
- Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'