Winterflowering Kniphofias
Tony Avent (Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:25:42 PST)
Dear Laaw:
Our Kniphofia sarmentosa is one of the earliest species to flower in
March, but in milder climates, our customers find it to bloom through
the winter.
Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
email tony@plantdelights.com
website http://www.plantdelights.com/
phone 919 772-4794
fax 919 772-4752
"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent
Lauw de Jager wrote:
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
Site http://www.bulbargence.com/
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