Red Hot Pokers. Or Kniphofias if you want their botanical name.
I was putting my two bags of potting compost into the back of our little van the other day and noticed these plants flowering in the landscaped beds of the supermarket car park.
I was most taken back and thought they only flowered in the height of summer. So I wandered over and took the photo on my mobile phone for yours and my perusal dear readers.
Apparently not. They can flower from March to September and originate in Africa. Rather like the wild Montbretia that is a garden invazive and also from Africa and you see it growing everywhere here in Ireland.
Perhaps it's because we live on the Gulf Stream that we saw Red Hot Pokers flowering here in April?
They made my day anyway! Hope they make yours?
Not my favourite plant for my tiny garden, so many of our seasons are changing and bloom times as well, I find our fruits ripen much earlier, it nice to see unexpected blooms.
ReplyDeleteIt's another old fashioned garden favourite like your Peony Marlene. We sometimes get every season in a day. We've seen Rhododendrons flowering in March and now the Red Hot Pokers flowering in April. The seasons are up the spout.
DeleteA wonderful vibrant colour. Just the thing to make my day.
ReplyDeleteMe also Linda. Vibrant and hot summer colours.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen an orange one before. Ours are red and bloom later in the season. A lovely sight.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely sight JayCee. Especially in a discount supermarket car park planting scheme.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to Boris Johnson, I know where I would have stuck a red hot poker given half the chance. Liz Truss could have had one too.
ReplyDeleteAt least Liz is the intelligent one.😊 There again?
ReplyDeleteIt’s like the guy from Jurassic park says
ReplyDelete“ life finds a way “. And it does.
Very true Angela. Thanks!
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