Plants by mail order since 1984, over 4100 plants online today
Nursery & Gardens open: Mon - Sat 9.00 - 16.30 & Sun 10:00 - 16:00
Pop up café: Cafe Now Closed for Winter
- Shop Now
- Burncoose Specialities
- This Month
- Offers & Promotions
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
- 40 years at Burncoose
- Engage With Us
- Information, Help & Advice
- About Us & Our Services
- Terms & Conditions
- Log In / Register
KNIPHOFIA
Commonly known as Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
Expanding range of showy pokers for growing in nature-friendly clumps.
Many hybrids have been toned down over time from the original "red hot pokers" and now come in shades of red, orange, yellow, and greenish white.
Genus of about 70 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen rhizomatous perennials from mountainous or upland areas, often in moist places in rough grass or along streamsides in southern and tropical Africa, Madagascar and Arabia.
Further Reading....
-
DeciduousLeaves usually thin, grass-like,10-100cm (3-39in) long.
-
EvergreenLeaves usually broad, keeled or strap-shaped to 1.5m (5ft) long.
-
Bulb/Corm or rhizomatous perennialRhizomatous perennials
-
HerbaceousEarly in the year, typically January till end of March, herbaceous plants might be supplied in 9cm pots to ensure timely despatch.
-
Additional Features
Place of originSouthern and tropical Africa. -
Wildlife
Bee friendlyRabbit Resistant
Herbaceous Plants - Video Collection
- Dividing Herbaceous Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring Planting Osteospermums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing Summer Perennials - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dividing summer flowering Hemerocallis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Summer propagation - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Self-seeding aquilegia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Supporting Plants - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading meconopsis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Dead heading Delphiniums - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Feeding herbaceous peonies - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Overpotting Problems - Video Tip ondemand_video
Kniphofia - Care Guide
Buy Varieties of KNIPHOFIA
KNIPHOFIA 'Alcazar'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
garnet red
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA 'Bees Lemon'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
dense narrow yellow flowers from green buds. Easy to grow
KNIPHOFIA 'Ice Queen'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
a very nearly white cultivar. Pale cream flowers from green buds. Ages to white
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA 'John Benary'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
coral-red flowers
KNIPHOFIA 'Little Maid'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
pale lemon flower spike about 18 inches tall
KNIPHOFIA 'Nancy's Red'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
a short growing variety less than 2 feet tall with dusky deep coral-red flowers
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA northiae
Giant red hot poker, Torch lily
red buds and pale-yellow flowers. Not clump forming
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50
KNIPHOFIA 'Poco Orange'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
dwarf variety with deep orange flowers
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA rooperi
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
orange-red spherical flowers becoming orange-yellow
KNIPHOFIA 'Royal Castle'
Poker lily, Red hot poker, Tritoma
red/yellow flower spike
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA 'Royal Standard'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
red buds opening to yellow
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA rufa 'Rasta'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
tall growing with long greenish-yellow spikes initially light orange as the flowers open. An unusual colour combination
KNIPHOFIA 'Tawny King'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
dark bronze stems and tubular cream flowers above evergreen strap-like leaves
Gift-wrapping available
MULTIBUY Any 3+ £12.00 each
£14.50 each
KNIPHOFIA 'Timothy'
Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
cream flushed carmine
Useful extras...
Fertilisers & Feeds - Vitax
Q4 Pelleted Fertiliser
A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
3 options from £6.00
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
Afterplant - Grow Your Own
AFTER PLANT GROW YOUR OWN seaweed is ready to use liquid concentrate that was specially formulated be used on all edible plants.
Only £8.00
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
Afterplant - Tomatoes
AFTER PLANT TOMATO FEED Liquid Concentrate with Bio stimulant is a high potash liquid concentrate containing seaweed extract, plant derived amino acids and other nutrients specifically formulated to benefit tomatoes and greenhouse plants.
Only £8.00
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi
Recommended by the RHS. Contains Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi. Suitable for all trees and shrubs (except rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers, cranberries and blueberries)
3 options from £3.00
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
Rootgrow Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi
This specially adapted Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi will boost the growth of acid-loving plants like rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers and blueberries.
It contains ericoid and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which are found in poor acidic soils where ericaceous plants naturally grow.
Only £7.50
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
All-purpose Seaweed Stimulant
All-purpose organic concentrated seaweed feed that is a ready to use, derived from sustainable harvested kelp, that can be used on all outdoor and indoor plants, except acid loving plants.
Perfect used in conjunction with Rootgrow™.
Only £7.50
