Ernie, Those K Multiflora in your video are amazing. Those flower spikes , Wow! The color, height, flower density. Do you stake them at all or they hold up well, period? Picking up some K. Christmas Cheer to help a friend do some landscaping in their new home here in San Diego this weekend It’s a cultivar that was developed in SoCal at The Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. So I think they will find it a great addition that blooms in winter gardens here. Yours are spectacular in vigor, and the clumps look great for late season, period. Great to see your success. I bet they look stunning in your landscape. Mike San Diego Expecting another round of early season rains tonight…. On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 1:22 PM Ernie DeMarie via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > While they may not quite be bulbs, Kniphofia does make it into the PBS > wiki as a genus. So here in NY two fall blooming species that will bloom > soon, just before potential frost, are K multiflora and K bruceae. Both > are in spike at this time. I protect both with a winter wood chip mulch as > at least the latter comes from a not so cold area of South Africa. Both > are tall and spectacular species and never seen around here or much at all > actually. Here's a video I posted on youtube a while back on K multiflora > in the garden. > https://youtube.com/watch/… > Another good South African species for fall bloom is Hesperantha > coccinea. I saw them growing in patches of soil among rocks in a streambed > on my last trip to SA before the pandemic hit, so I try to not let them get > too dry for too long in the garden. However that hasn't been an issue this > year as we have had plenty of excess rain this growing season. Two mild > winters didnt hurt either even though they are winter mulched with wood > chips just in case. One red flowered clone I got from a fellow facebook > plant enthusiast begins flowering in late August/early September, the > others begin in September. I am growing red and pink selections in my > South African garden in the back of the house, not far from the K > multiflora plants and they look splendid as I write this. Each year the > clumps expand at a good clip and make more flower spikes. In milder > climates than ours in NY they would likely continue flowering all winter, > as I saw some flowers in SA in December so that would be equivalent to June > for us. > Ernie DeMariein z6/7 NY where fall is warmer than typical and the sun has > returned after several days of clouds and a bit of rain one day. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>