I need to figure out what kind of flowers are beside my house, whether to cut them back or not?

I live in Virginia, the flowers are shaped like a rocket and are red, yellow and orange. They are approximately 3 to 4 feet tall with long leaves at the bottom. They are brown and dead looking now. Does anyone know what type of flower this is and whether I should cut it back or can I, more like. They are beautiful flowers during the spring but they look bad now.

I need to figure out what kind of flowers are beside my house, whether to cut them back or not?
Red Hot Poker aka Kniphofia uvaria aka Titoma uvaria. Leave the dead foliage to protect the tender crowns over the winter and tidy them up in the spring. RScott
Reply:Are these your flower?





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If so, they are the Red Hot Poker that RScott named.


Here's a site that will give yousome info about them





http://www.thegardenhelper.com/tritoma.h...
Reply:the best thing u could do is to contact a garden in ur area. my mom is a greenhouse propagator for the Cape Fear Botanical Garden in NC and can tell u EVERYTHING~ no exaggeration~ about every kind of flower. right now shes not answering her phone or i would be able to give u an answer. but yeah, if u can call the place closest to u or at least email them a pic, ull get ur answer...plus some tips u might not have known before.

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