Q. Kniphofia is a beautiful and exotic plant that, according to some nurserymen, will adapt in our heat and humidity. Why has there not been wider use of it? Where can I buy them, and what are the ...

Red Hot Pokers are magnificent plants. They look as though they should have been from some lost island populated by dinosaurs. Unfortunately, Victorian gardeners thought quite differently, believing ...

Glowing cones of colorful flowers held high on bare stems earned Kniphofia its common names (red hot poker or torch lily). In the old days, most available varieties had coarse, unattractive leaves, ...

Kniphofias are gradually making their presence known in Bay Area gardening circles. Maybe it's the catchy common names - red hot poker or torch flower - or the fact that this South African bulb does ...

Digging Dog Nursery -- a rare jewel with a fully conceived landscape demonstrating the use of select plants that the nursery propagates -- lies hidden in a redwood forest on the Albion Ridge a few ...

Red hot pokers (Kniphofia) are herbaceous perennials prized for their tall, showstopping flower spikes that bloom in the spring and summer in bright red, orange, and yellow. Blooms can last up to 18 ...

Red hot pokers, or Kniphofia, are high-impact, low-effort perennials, proving to be tough, reliable and showstopping. What more could you ask for? Native to the eastern regions of South Africa, red ...

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The species, Kniphofia leucocephala is extant at only one location, Langepan, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where the population is threatened by afforestation and possibly grazing. Consequently, a ...

Red-hot pokers are such excellent garden plants that it is hard to imagine they have ever been out of fashion. But they have only recently begun to emerge from the horticultural doldrums. Though ...