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Red Hot Poker
12 March 2024
It's been raining at night this week. Very convenient. We can walk down to the village to run our errands without getting wet. And even take a little stroll on the way back.
Red Hot Poker. iPhone 15 Pro Max back triple camera 6.86mm at f1.8, 1/2959 second and ISO 64. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
We were pleased to see all the red hot pokers blooming. So we took a few portraits. We particularly liked that the rains have grown a lot of bright green grass where there is usually just dry weeds.
Kniphofia uvaria, as its known to the botanists, really does look like a red hot poker. Like those irons you put in the fire to move burning logs around, the tip of its long stalk burns a bright red.
It's an unusual perennial herb, native to South Africa, although in our neighborhood, there are a lot of them. The wind, which likes to whip through here off the ocean, disperses the seeds.
We've never had one take root in our garden, though.
Instead, we're reduced to bringing them home as photographs where, without the need to wear gloves or use gardening shears, we can share one or two of them with you.
Just don't touch.