NOUN
- a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers
How To Use kniphofia In A Sentence
- Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
- If only they wouldn't turn snapdragons into antirrhinums, love-lies-bleeding into amaranthus, and red-hot-pokers into kniphofias .... Try Anything Twice
- I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily.
- Kniphofia rooperi has egg-shaped flowers, but that too is evergreen and subject to winter setbacks. Times, Sunday Times
- Why those forests of obfuscating fennel, those battalions of kniphofia? Times, Sunday Times
- Like all kniphofias, it needs sunshine and is best towards the front of a border.
- Plants which will give year-round interest but don't require much work include berberis verruculosa, weigela, euonymus, hebe, kniphofia, and Arum italicum.
- In the herbaceous border they don't seem to care for eryngiums, paeonies, iris or kniphofias.
- Kniphofia caulescens is the classic evergreen species, with fat, grey yucca-like foliage. Times, Sunday Times
- Red hot pokers (kniphofia) are tough, reliable perennials which can cope with periods in summer and require staking when flower. Times, Sunday Times