Winterflowering Kniphofias
Lauw de Jager (Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:21:02 PST)

Dear all,
This year we have a brillant example of a winterflowering Kniphoffia: K
rooperii. We only had severe frost the end of November. All the flowerbuds
remained intact throughout the winter and the flworing has lasted since
early January. In the Northeast of Spain I saw a few days ago another
Kniphofia in flower marqued as being K sarmentosa (glauce green naroow
foliage spike elongated with red/yellow flowers). Can anyone confirm that
this species is indeed winterflowering. As far as I can find in the
literature the only winter flowering species are K rooperi and coddiana (it
was certainly not one of these two)
Look forward to yor help

Greetings

-- Lauw de Jager
Bulb'Argence
South of France (zone 9 (olive trees)
emailto: dejager@bulbargence.com
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