Torch Lilies or Red Hot Poker (with all updates)

Red Hot Poker is a perennial plant in most zones. It's pretty much maintenance-free and looks good most of the year.

[@yose6418]

I appreciate the effort that you put into making this: 1 year of filming in the same video. It's nice to see it all at once, instead of doing separate videos.

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Appreciate it

[@gogodaddy1]

Great video! I started some from seed last year and they’re just blooming for the first time now. I really appreciate that your video showed life for a full year, and not just at planting or blooming times. Thank you so much, make more please.

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

I am glad it was helpful

[@buttdreads]

Excellent video, very informative and just what I was looking for. thank you!

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@judyrocha1590]

Such beautiful flowers😁

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Yes they are and they are blooming right now

[@TamanthaFord-kj5oi]

These are so gorgeous. I have a plant I started a few years back, but I think it’s a little overcrowded in the area and seeing this lets me know I need to move it. Thank you!!!! I love this plant so much.

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Go for it!

[@carolynmctague5591]

Thank you! Great info as I wasn't sure it would rebloom!!! Will look forward to new blooms!!!

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Absolutely

[@dennistherocker]

This is the most informative video for this plant 👍 I have this in my garden (England UK) for a couple of years, its just finished flowering and I was wondering what to do as I just left it last year until winter when I just cut of the flower heads, it did flower again this year but the leaves are looking bedragled ... now I know what to do so it will look tidier next year 👍 Thank you so much for the tutorial. It's a shame we don't have Humming birds in this country 😒 Thank you again.

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tinaknutsen]

@dennistherocker You should consider dividing your Red Hot Poker plants. You can place in other sunny areas of your garden or pot them up and move them around in your garden when they are in bloom to see were you and the plant likes to be. Another mention is they look striking next to Shasta Daisies, lavender and Crosomia. Crosomia is another Hummingbird magnet. I wish you could enjoy the hummingbirds, they are territorial birds. I wish we had red Cardinals. We have a lot of Blue Jays. I get mesmerized by plants, nature & wild life. ❤from the Great Pacific Northwest; Zone 8b

[@kreekree5]

awesome video!!!! love to see the progression of the plant throughout the year

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Thank you

[@suzanneweston1529]

Excellent video! Thank you for a short video, but very informative.❤❤

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@karinbook5020]

Oh, your torch lillies are lovely. So tall! And the hummingbirds!

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Yup

[@tinadavis9329]

I’ve got a red hot poker I’ve planted in the grass I’ve had 4 blooms on it I’m hoping it will get bigger and bigger next year thanks for sharing this video I wished mine was as big as yours x

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

It will expand over time

[@marciloni12]

That was a nice intro 😂❤ I have 3 flowering in my backyard ❤

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Wow nice

[@2orangekittygirlz]

Thank you! Should you trim back the leaves of the plant in the fall or wait until spring? (I live in California)

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

I am in zone 9 and I do trim them down because they do get messy with frost

[@NiimbarkJyoti6483]

So beautiful ❤

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Isn't it

[@tomahawky1]

Very nice, thank you so much!

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Thank you too!

[@totallydomestic433]

I just planted 7, can’t wait for them to bloom. Zone 9b

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

All the best

[@NvrGoATM]

I just bought my mom some of these

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Awesome mother's day gift

[@gregellis6353]

Thank you

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

You're welcome

[@kattycat33ncali]

I have the red hot pokers mine are not as tall as yours are and yours they are beautiful

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Thank you

[@janethunoway6859]

Is it beneficial to the plant to divide it when it gets large?

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Yes because it gets more space, more nutrients

[@totallydomestic433]

If you cut the dry ones, can you harvest the seeds?

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Yes, but the plants grown from seeds may not bloom for a few years. Best is to dig up the bulbs and divide them.

[@manishhkr]

Can they be grown in Zone 11?

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

Yes

[@jennierollins8789]

☮️🌍🌲

[@EasyPeasyGardening]

😀