Kniphofia Lola 5a is topped in mid-spring with

is topped in mid-spring with 10" stalks of tiny mahogany flowers with pure white lower lips

Our Dicentra scandens is a virtual flowering machine

has been a superb performer and one of our favorite calanthes

The flowers are followed by rounded green leaves with lobes on one side

In the 1900s

Kniphofia Lola 5a is topped in mid-spring withThanks to NC plantsman Jim Massey for sharing this killer poker that he got from "Lola." Kniphofia 'Lola' is, as we say in the South, a big honker. In other words, it's big, it's bodacious, it's the Bo Derek of the red hot pokers. Our amazing clumps are 5' tall x 5' wide with 6 7' spikes of orange flowers in midsummer a hub for hummingbirds. Kniphofia 'Lola' is not for the small garden, small people who are easily intimidated, or those who have been