We’re nearly at the end of the first month of autumn in New Zealand. This troop of red hot pokers are by a highway near home and I don’t see them very often. From a walk yesterday when we braved the traffic. Easter in the southern hemisphere where things are dying rather than rising! Tapanui, West Otago, New Zealand.
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Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2021)
Exploring Colour 
I like the look of them.
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Same!
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It always feels strange to see your seasons being the opposite of ours. An autumnal Easter would feel very strange to me. I’m just seeing the leaves on the little yellow kniphofias I planted here last year. 🙂
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What’s strange to me is I was having those very thoughts before I got up this morning, and was talking to Nigel about it immediately before I read your comment. I experience Easter as nature puts on its last pre-winter show and things are dying. Northern hemisphere nature springs anew with hope for new life. Its so diametrically opposed! Thank you Ann 🙂
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Here Easter is very much tied up with spring and everything coming back to life – it would seem strange without that!
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I’m sure it would! It really struck me how different the ‘feel’ of Easter is north/south.
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I love the historical reference! Any chance the Queen will come for this Trooping of the Colors?
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Hahaha .. No chance!
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They seem to be a lot bushier than the one’s I’m used to seeing. Is this a rather uncommon variety?
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There’s many varieties of kniphofias and the size, bushiness and spreadiness seems to vary a lot! I think this is fairly common down here. The flowers at their best command attention – they’re large and a 50/50 mix of top colour vs light colour below. Real half-and-half blooms.
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