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
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  • 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
  • At West Dean they used yellow and orange kniphofias to tremendous effect and I have promised myself to grow more.
  • Plants which will give year-round interest but don't require much work include Mahonia, weigela, hebe, kniphofia, sedum, wild geranium and Arum italicum.
  • Plants which will give year-round interest but don't require much work include Mahonia x media, berberis verruculosa, weigela, euonymus, hebe, kniphofia, Sedum spectabile, wild geranium and Arum italicum.
  • 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.

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