Primal Scream is a spectacular, award-winning daylily with enormous 7½ to 8½-inch tangerine orange flowers dusted with gold and centered with a green throat. Classified as an unusual form, its narrow petals twist and curl back with loosely ruffled edges.
The giant blooms are carried on tall, graceful scapes from mid to late July above attractive arching foliage.
What it looks like
Gigantic flowers 7½ to 8½ inches across with long, narrow, twisted and recurved tepals in glowing tangerine orange with a gold-dust sparkle, loosely ruffled edges and a green throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 34 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 20 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom huge spidery orange flowers sway on tall scapes.
Growing it with lavender
Its bold tangerine flowers contrast strikingly with lavender and stand tall behind it in the same sunny, 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: Tangerine orange with a green throat
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Tall, arching clump
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Mature size: 34 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: Mid-July
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Peak bloom: Late-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.