There are seven or eight scattered around the front yard, some lining the rock drainage path, some in the corner by the front walk and some randomly in the gravel.They have huge arching flower spikes with pretty red flowers. The plants are all probably in too much shade, and each has only a few bloom stalks, rather than the mass of upright red flowers I've seen in pictures.
When we moved in there were several blooming a bit sparsely in August. I cut back the tall stalks over winter. The foliage remains evergreen all winter.
It's impossible to get blown leaves and debris and tired brown grasslike leaf stems cleaned up from around the dense mounds. They look ratty in spring, and I need to find a better way to neaten them up.
All winter and spring they got virtually NO water, but seem to carry on. In June all but two started sending up big spikes and blooming.
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| June 24, 2018 at the front walk |
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| June 24, 2018 - this is thee largest, a huge flop of foliage at the corner of the yard. |
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| June 24, 2018 along the dry creek rock path |
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| June 24, 2018 - I like the way they line the path and draw the eye to the hidden back corner of the fence (I put some broken pots there) |
This was a view of what was here when we moved in. Blooming in August, 2017:
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| summer 2017 |
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| Seedheads after blooming, September 23, 2018 |