Connie, everybody admires a mixed lily bed like this thats pretty much in bloom from beginning of the season to the very end, but I call it a recipe for disaster as well. I do a lot of change up/ rotation thru this garden and as such it presents some real challenges, most of which I can handle.
Most of us know that lilies can host one or two viruses and still live and bloom normally. Its when it comes down with a third one or a stress that-- 'does them in' to stuff like this. Apparently, there's another bulb from a more recent purchase in here nearby that carries another virus sucessfully and one that the Garden Angel didn't have and it caught it. And this works both ways, viruses are reciprocal--which makes it all the more necessary for removal--better sooner than later.
