Kniphofia 'Gladness'
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Kniphofia 'Gladness'• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common names: torch lily, red-hot poker
• flowering season: July - August
• height: 3 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: long, narrow, 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
Orange-golden flowers that are darker at the top of the flowerhead and lighter on older, lower flowers. The flowers are on 3-foot stems from the middle of summer through August. Our local birdlife loves to visit these flowers and drink nectar from them. They produce so much that you can taste it yourself if you are not shy about bending down to lightly attach your mouth to a flowerhead and lightly sucking from several of the older, open florets at once. And don't be surprised if there is so much nectar that some drips down your chin. USDA Zones 6 - 9, and to zone 10 in the West.