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Red hot poker variety?
Red hot pokers: I have tried buying from the usual garden centres but it is
hard to buy them in flower and to check the flower colour so I wondered if anyone knew any varieties that are easy to get and that are BIG and have deep coloured (red or orange) flowers. I always seem to end up with watery washed out flowers. I was in the west of Ireland yesterday and saw some colossal specimens in peoples front gardens (almost 2 metre tall flower spikes) with very vivid orange and yellow flowers. I would like to get one and do not want to sneak into someones front garden to try to dig out a lump. If I ask the owner which variety, Irish people hate not knowing the answer to anything (it is too unhelpful) and I will get a long chat but no answer. Irish gardeners never know garden varieties; they always got any given plant from Mrs Byrne up the road or sometimes her sister in Galway. Des in Dublin |
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Red hot poker variety?
In message , Des Higgins
writes Red hot pokers: I have tried buying from the usual garden centres but it is hard to buy them in flower and to check the flower colour so I wondered if anyone knew any varieties that are easy to get and that are BIG and have deep coloured (red or orange) flowers. I always seem to end up with watery washed out flowers. I was in the west of Ireland yesterday and saw some colossal specimens in peoples front gardens (almost 2 metre tall flower spikes) with very vivid orange and yellow flowers. I would like to get one and do not want to sneak into someones front garden to try to dig out a lump. If I ask the owner which variety, Irish people hate not knowing the answer to anything (it is too unhelpful) and I will get a long chat but no answer. Irish gardeners never know garden varieties; they always got any given plant from Mrs Byrne up the road or sometimes her sister in Galway. Des in Dublin The brightest red among (identified varieties among) my photographs, assuming it was correctly labelled, is Kniphofia ichopensis 'John Benary'. But, IIRC, this is not one of the more robust varieties - but not one of the most delicate either. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On Aug 12, 4:27 pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , Des Higgins writesRed hot pokers: I have tried buying from the usual garden centres but it is hard to buy them in flower and to check the flower colour so I wondered if anyone knew any varieties that are easy to get and that are BIG and have deep coloured (red or orange) flowers. I always seem to end up with watery washed out flowers. I was in the west of Ireland yesterday and saw some colossal specimens in peoples front gardens (almost 2 metre tall flower spikes) with very vivid orange and yellow flowers. I would like to get one and do not want to sneak into someones front garden to try to dig out a lump. If I ask the owner which variety, Irish people hate not knowing the answer to anything (it is too unhelpful) and I will get a long chat but no answer. Irish gardeners never know garden varieties; they always got any given plant from Mrs Byrne up the road or sometimes her sister in Galway. Des in Dublin The brightest red among (identified varieties among) my photographs, assuming it was correctly labelled, is Kniphofia ichopensis 'John Benary'. But, IIRC, this is not one of the more robust varieties - but not one of the most delicate either. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley Thanks Stewart!! Only one I have to go on so far. I will have a quick google. Des |
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Red hot poker variety?
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:51:21 +0100, "Des Higgins"
wrote: Red hot pokers: I have tried buying from the usual garden centres but it is hard to buy them in flower and to check the flower colour so I wondered if anyone knew any varieties that are easy to get and that are BIG and have deep coloured (red or orange) flowers. I always seem to end up with watery washed out flowers. I was in the west of Ireland yesterday and saw some colossal specimens in peoples front gardens (almost 2 metre tall flower spikes) with very vivid orange and yellow flowers. I would like to get one and do not want to sneak into someones front garden to try to dig out a lump. If I ask the owner which variety, Irish people hate not knowing the answer to anything (it is too unhelpful) and I will get a long chat but no answer. Irish gardeners never know garden varieties; they always got any given plant from Mrs Byrne up the road or sometimes her sister in Galway. Des in Dublin K. Rooperi, K. x Prince Igor, K. Uvaria Nobilis all have large flowers of orange and yellow as you describe, on stems typically in excess of 5 ft. (well, they do in my garden!). The flower heads of K. Rooperi are a bit more rounded than the norm (but by no means spherical). The gardens of St. Michael's Mount in west Cornwall are ablaze with them in late summer. Fir Tree Farm Nursery in Cornwall stock some 60 species and varieties, including the above, and do mail order: www.cornwallgardens.com -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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Red hot poker variety?
"Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:51:21 +0100, "Des Higgins" wrote: Red hot pokers: I have tried buying from the usual garden centres but it is hard to buy them in flower and to check the flower colour so I wondered if anyone knew any varieties that are easy to get and that are BIG and have deep coloured (red or orange) flowers. I always seem to end up with watery washed out flowers. I was in the west of Ireland yesterday and saw some colossal specimens in peoples front gardens (almost 2 metre tall flower spikes) with very vivid orange and yellow flowers. I would like to get one and do not want to sneak into someones front garden to try to dig out a lump. If I ask the owner which variety, Irish people hate not knowing the answer to anything (it is too unhelpful) and I will get a long chat but no answer. Irish gardeners never know garden varieties; they always got any given plant from Mrs Byrne up the road or sometimes her sister in Galway. Des in Dublin K. Rooperi, K. x Prince Igor, K. Uvaria Nobilis all have large flowers of orange and yellow as you describe, on stems typically in excess of 5 ft. (well, they do in my garden!). The flower heads of K. Rooperi are a bit more rounded than the norm (but by no means spherical). The gardens of St. Michael's Mount in west Cornwall are ablaze with them in late summer. Fir Tree Farm Nursery in Cornwall stock some 60 species and varieties, including the above, and do mail order: www.cornwallgardens.com Thanks Chris! -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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