Lake of Fire has enormous 7-inch flowers in apricot orange with an extra-wide orange red eye. A matching orange red picotee lines the ruffled petals, finished with a razor-thin golden margin.
It lights up the garden in midsummer on 24-inch scapes, a large flower on a moderately sized plant.
What it looks like
Enormous flowers about 7 inches across with broad, ruffled petals in apricot orange, a very wide orange red eye zone, a matching orange red picotee edge and a razor-thin golden yellow margin. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 24 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 14 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom huge apricot flowers with red eyes rise just above the clump.
Growing it with lavender
Its warm apricot and red flowers contrast with purple lavender in the same full sun and well-drained soil.
Care
Grow in full sun to light part shade (at least six hours of sun for the best bloom) in average, well-drained soil; once established it handles heat, clay and dry spells. Hardy in zones 3 to 9. Snap off faded flowers for a tidy look, cut bare scapes to the base after bloom and divide crowded clumps every few years.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hemerocallis
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Flower color: Apricot orange with an orange red eye and picotee
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 24 in tall × 18–24 in wide
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USDA hardiness zones: 3–9
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Light: full sun, part sun to part shade
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Bloom start: Early-July
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Peak bloom: Mid-July
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Bloom pattern: Single Flush
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Deer resistance: Susceptible
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Pollinator value: Good
Sizes and shipping
Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly.