I have tried to plant these flowers over the last couple of years, with very little sucess, just the leaves have grown. Hopefully this year the flower heads will appear. Any advice?
I have red hot poker plants they do great in the south. on one of my tublers is a sprout about 4 in, long how do i go about planting the new sprout. i"ve never seen this before my plants are about 12 yrs. old and still beautiful. thanks
Hi, great to see this thread, as I was going to ask anyway. I was given an red hot poker and its done so well on my south facing "hot bed," as I call it, I've divided it into about 7 plants now and counting! I read somewhere that they should keep flowering till the autumn if you dead head them. Is that true? mine only seem to flower the once and them theve gone over.. Also at what stage should you dead head, as I notice that the flower heads that do have a bit of colour left on still attract the bees, so I dont want to cut these down yet? Any advise?
To gardening mom, I break off a new sprout making sure its got a piece of root, dig a small hole where I want it to grow and just press it into the soil .never failed yet!
Hi, planted my 2 plants 6 years ago, north facing! They've grown into 2 big mamas with lots of babies around which I haven't got round to lifting.They produce about 8 stems with flowers each summer. They look beautiful when in flower, but the flowers only last about a week in perfection (mine flower in June which seems earlier than other people's?) I so wish I could make them flower again, hence looking at this thread, wondering if I dead head some more flowers will grow that summer?
If they are in the ground leave until November and then the flower spike will be easy to pull out. The greenery, just grab a handful and pull. Do this all around the plant and you will be left with a tidier plant. I've been doing this for 10 years and none of the platns have died.
I live in the north and planted a red hot poker last year and had about 12 flowers on it cutting the dead ones off for more to grow and noticed when i've giving it a good watering it seems to help more flowers come as I read somewhere that they need plenty of water. For some reason it flowered in red and yellow first then green and yellow, is this normal or have I two plants in one?
I live in the cold North of England. I've had a red hot poker plant in my garden for absolutely years and it did nothing. We cleared everything to put up a new fence and got rid of a lot of overgown shrubs. It's more open now and what with the lovely summer we've had guess what, the red hot poker was amazing this year. Loads of flower heads, 'tho like others, not for long. Now I'm left with long, hanging, untidy leaves. I'll tie them up as suggested to protect the plant over the winter and then I might try cutting right back in the Spring to make it tidier. I've seen nicer plants than mine but I don't want to loose it. Fingers crossed.
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I have got a few of these for the first time this year so this thread is a realy good read for me.
I have tried to plant these flowers over the last couple of years, with very little sucess, just the leaves have grown. Hopefully this year the flower heads will appear. Any advice?
This is great advice! I have grown some from plug plants earlier and I am trying to work out where to plant them.
I have red hot poker plants they do great in the south. on one of my tublers is a sprout about 4 in, long how do i go about planting the new sprout. i"ve never seen this before my plants are about 12 yrs. old and still beautiful. thanks
Hi, great to see this thread, as I was going to ask anyway. I was given an red hot poker and its done so well on my south facing "hot bed," as I call it, I've divided it into about 7 plants now and counting! I read somewhere that they should keep flowering till the autumn if you dead head them. Is that true? mine only seem to flower the once and them theve gone over.. Also at what stage should you dead head, as I notice that the flower heads that do have a bit of colour left on still attract the bees, so I dont want to cut these down yet? Any advise?
To gardening mom, I break off a new sprout making sure its got a piece of root, dig a small hole where I want it to grow and just press it into the soil .never failed yet!
Hi, planted my 2 plants 6 years ago, north facing! They've grown into 2 big mamas with lots of babies around which I haven't got round to lifting.They produce about 8 stems with flowers each summer. They look beautiful when in flower, but the flowers only last about a week in perfection (mine flower in June which seems earlier than other people's?) I so wish I could make them flower again, hence looking at this thread, wondering if I dead head some more flowers will grow that summer?
If they are in the ground leave until November and then the flower spike will be easy to pull out. The greenery, just grab a handful and pull. Do this all around the plant and you will be left with a tidier plant. I've been doing this for 10 years and none of the platns have died.
I live in the north and planted a red hot poker last year and had about 12 flowers on it cutting the dead ones off for more to grow and noticed when i've giving it a good watering it seems to help more flowers come as I read somewhere that they need plenty of water. For some reason it flowered in red and yellow first then green and yellow, is this normal or have I two plants in one?
I live in the cold North of England. I've had a red hot poker plant in my garden for absolutely years and it did nothing. We cleared everything to put up a new fence and got rid of a lot of overgown shrubs. It's more open now and what with the lovely summer we've had guess what, the red hot poker was amazing this year. Loads of flower heads, 'tho like others, not for long. Now I'm left with long, hanging, untidy leaves. I'll tie them up as suggested to protect the plant over the winter and then I might try cutting right back in the Spring to make it tidier. I've seen nicer plants than mine but I don't want to loose it. Fingers crossed.
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