The Torches Have Been Lit

[AlanLichty]

Kniphofia uvaria - lots of different names for these blooms including Torch Lily (they aren't really lilies), Red Hot Poker, and Tritomea. Neat looking blooms no matter what you want to call them. They seem to grow just about anywhere as we had them in our gardens in Salt Lake City as well as here in Vancouver, Washington.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

I agree, whatever you call them, they are super cool looking!

I see lot's of ferns too! Are the ones in the background dying already?

 

[AlanLichty]

I agree, whatever you call them, they are super cool looking!

I see lot's of ferns too! Are the ones in the background dying already?

Thanks Jim - they are amongst my favorite blooms. The ferns in the background are a variety I didn't cover in my fern series (I need to add another installment). They are called Autumn Ferns and they are actually brown when they are healthy. We have some of these in several places in our yard. The green fern on the right is a Lady Fern.

 

[MonikaC]

Nifty kniphofia, Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nifty kniphofia, Alan.

Thanks Monika!

 

[Beth]

gorgeous colors, this has a 3d look to it.

 

[AlanLichty]

gorgeous colors, this has a 3d look to it.

Thanks - I was shooting for that effect with my edits.

 

[Dave Renfroe]

Wow .... amazing colors, Alan. What's the secret, a really good camera or experienced processing?
You also got the isolation bang on with a bit of blur, but leaves enough to know what it is.
I would be interested to know the camera and processing details.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Alan, that plant has more aliases than a witness in the Federal Protection Program. Torch Lily, Red Hot Poker, Tritomea—at this point, I’m not sure if it's a flower or a Bond villain. Amazing bloom, and clearly tougher than half the people I know—it survives in both Utah and Washington. I'm starting to suspect it’s planning to take over.

 

[AlanLichty]

Alan, that plant has more aliases than a witness in the Federal Protection Program. Torch Lily, Red Hot Poker, Tritomea—at this point, I’m not sure if it's a flower or a Bond villain. Amazing bloom, and clearly tougher than half the people I know—it survives in both Utah and Washington. I'm starting to suspect it’s planning to take over.

Thanks Eric - good observations. I like the Bond villain notion Compared to some of the really invasive stuff we see up here this one is quite tame - especially compared to Himalayan Blackberry. We have many names for that plant up here and all of them are unprintable. Wonderful tasting berries in August but for the other 11+ months of the year it is a true scourge and a tenacious weed that will grow anywhere and everywhere.

 

[ProCaliberTraveler]

There are a few of these at my office. I was surprised by how quickly the blooms shot up this year

 

[AlanLichty]

There are a few of these at my office. I was surprised by how quickly the blooms shot up this year

Thanks Michael - once they get going they will put out blooms for a month or more.

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow .... amazing colors, Alan. What's the secret, a really good camera or experienced processing?
You also got the isolation bang on with a bit of blur, but leaves enough to know what it is.
I would be interested to know the camera and processing details.

Thanks Dave - sorry I didn't respond to this earlier. Camera is a Canon For R5 MkII with a RF100-500 f/4.5-7.1 L lens @200mm from roughly 5.1m away. Imported as a RAW file into Adobe Lightroom Classic. DxO PureRAW 5 was used to denoise the file followed by tweaks to the colors and light in Lightroom with finishing touched in Photoshop.