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Red Hot Poker

     
 
Red Hot Poker - Kniphofia Kniphofia

 

Colour: Red / yellow spikes
Flowering: June - September
Height: 24 - 60" (60 - 150 cm)
Family: Liliaceane
   

Red Hot Poker    


The red hot poker is a hardy herbacious perennial. The distinctive red spikes are made up of tubular petals which point downwards.

They thrive in full sun and are one of the few garden flowers which deer do not seem to eat.
 

 

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