How to Grow and Care for Red hot pokers

Referring to its red hue and its flower formation, the red hot poker has flowering spikes of pale yellow, apricot, orange, and red that bloom in summer. The blooming flowers contain an abundance of nectar, attracting hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. Because of its invasiveness, it is currently considered an environmental weed in portions of south-eastern Australia.

Red-hot poker is favored for the sizeable flower heads it produces from the end of summer to early autumn. The bright buds transition from red at the base to orange and then to a pale yellow at the tip. Red-hot poker are very popular to bees due to their high pollen content.

Often crowning gardens with its robust, spike-like inflorescences, torch lily delivers a vibrant botanical spectacle, emitting a radiant glow of tangerine and crimson. This perennial workhorse is popular among gardeners for its sun-loving nature and low maintenance needs. Amplifying its appeal, its nectary blossoms make a luring feast for hummingbirds, fostering an animated and ecology-supportive garden.

Red hot poker 'Elvira' is distinguished by its bright orange flowers and dark green leaves. This cultivar was hybridized using the offspring of Kniphofia uvaria, and is named for Elvira, the wife of the hybridizer, Paul Stringer.

Red hot poker 'Little Maid' is named little maid since it is a dwarf cultivar of the Red hot poker, growing just 60 cm tall in contrast to the 1.5 m of the parent plant. This distinctive hybrid has a long brush of white-colored flowers rather than the red blooms of its parent.