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Type: Perennial
Seed #: 14
Common Name: Red Hot Poker
Latin Name: Kniphophia
Variety: Torch Lily
Colour: Red & Yellow
Temperature: 20C - 25C (68F - 77F)
Zone: 7 - 9
Blooms: June to August
Site: Full Sun or Part Shade
Height: 80cm - 90cm (31" - 35")
Spread: 70cm - 100cm (28" - 39")
Seeds per pack: 50
Price: $2.79
Plant these to encourage birds and butterflies to visit your garden frequently. This plant produces amazing cutflower. This plant is deer resistant. This plant is a great water saver. Also perfect for the busy lifestyle gardener or just that dry area where nothing seems to grow.
Attracts
Butterflies		 Great
Cutflower		 Deer
Resistant		 Drought
Tolerant

Red Hot Poker
Notes: Easy to grow! This evergreen perennial produces brilliant orange and yellow tubular flowers on slender spikes. They will tolerate wind and coastal conditions and thrives in a well drained, full sun, open location. For fuller more vibrant flowers, keep watered in hot summer months. Superb showy cut flower for large arrangements. Hummingbirds love this plant and will visit frequently.


Instructions: Sow 2 to 3 mm deep. Germination is 7 to 21 days.


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Hollyhock - Stunning pink flowers. Blooming in late June on. Excellent cut flower. Great for the back of borders & beds. Appreciates wind protection. Coreopsis - One of the best and oldest varieties of cultivated wildflowers. These plants prefer the well drained soil poor so many of us are blessed with. Coreopsis is a great cut flower that is deer resistant, drought tolerant, butterflies adore it. Coreopsis has also proven to be a lady bug magnet to our gardens. Lady bugs are very beneficial to any garden as they are known to eat aphids. Echinacea - A bouquet sweet scent fills a room and the birds love the seed heads in winter garden. Echinacea is reputed to increase the bodies resistance to infection and colds. Scented, deer resistant ,drought tolerant and attracts beneficial insects. Striking purple daisy like flowers with orange and golden brown central cones. A very frost hardy plant that likes full sun and fertile soil and will provide abundant cut-flowers once established.
Hollyhock Coreopsis Echinacea
(Alcea rosea) (Coreopsis lanceolata) (Echinacea purpurea)

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