Kniphofia thomsonii subsp. thomsonii
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Kniphofia thomsonii subsp. thomsonii• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
• flowering season: most of the summer
• height: 4 to 5 feet
• Light requirements: full sun, half a day of sun will do
• Soil requirements: average to rich and well drained
• Water requirments: average; watering in summer is recommended
• Growth habit: not growing as a tight clump but instead sending runners out, so that a plant is more open
• How to propagate: separating one of the runners from its parent 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
• Other points of interests: native to parts of Kenya and Uganda;its tall stems of widely spaced flowers
The flower stems of Kniphofia thomsonii subsp. thomsonii grow to five feet tall, with a slightly leaning curve that is characteristic of the plant. Plants will send up many flower stems, one after another for most of the summer. The individual flowers are widely spaced on the stems, of a soft but striking orange. Other colors are said to occur in this species, however ours are all the soft orange, being divisions. Another trait are the runners that the plants produce, not running very far, but doing this rather than staying in a tight clump as is more typical of kniphofias. USDA Zones 7 - 9, and possibly Zone 6.
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