Wiki Additions-- Johnsonia and Kniphofia
Ellen Hornig (Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:35:10 PST)

With reference to Jim's comments, my garden IS full of kniphofias, and it
has been for years. K. northiae, K. hirsuta, K. typhoides, K. bruceae, K.
caulescens, K. linearifolia, K. ichopensis, K. typhoides, K. albescens, K.
coddiana (rather surprisingly), K. triangularis, and probably a few others
I'm forgeting are all in there, and some have been there for a long time. I
find them quite irresistible.

On my recent trip to South Africa, I added a couple of others to my wish
list, notably the small and exquisitely-colored K. thodei we saw on Sentinel
Peak (delicate tangerine buds opening to creamy-white flowers), and the very
tall maroon-flowered variant of K. parviflora that we saw in another
location. I had never before seen anything other than the small,
straw-colored, completely aesthetically uninteresting form of this species.

K. uvaria has both winter-rainfall and summer-rainfall forms, depending on
where it's collected. I am under the impression that they can get somewhat
"confused" under greenhouse conditions, though, with summer-rainfall strains
putting up buds in fall. Or maybe I got the plants mixed up...? Could
happen.

Ellen

Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
http://www.senecahillperennials.com/

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