Yeah, I know, we had the same type of thing in May 2006 or 2005.... Toasted a lot of my hostas too. They came back, but looked like yuck all summer..

We had a late frost the end of one April too that wiped out the lilies, they were very tall and we had been way too hot, the tissue damage followed by 30 days of non stop rain led to a systemic botytis infection that killed them to the ground. Virtually ALL of them.
Sorry to increase the pins and needles!

The sadness was found in me while looking at a mushy stem after that horrible weather had warmed a bit again and I realized what I had lost. That's why, as much as I look forward to spring, I am in not quite as big a hurry as I once was. It will come (spring) and the more gradual it is, the better it is for everything.

And for as warm as this spring has been, it really hasn't been at all like 2007 was for us. The temps started warming this year gradually in late February. We didn't go from 30 to 70s and 80 overnight, which screws everything up. It has been more gradual, making me feel a little bit better about possible outcomes. But then I have no choice but to comply with what Mother Nature shells out, right?

A domed yard? Hmmmm...

I saw a yellow flower in a place where I have never planted anything, and when I trudged through to see it, it was a yellow (fragrant) asian. Now how it got there I don't know, but could have washed through with a heavy rain. Anyway, its a pleasant surprise. Mike

What a pleasant surprise. You should post a picture if you are able to get one.

Phyllis (lilsista59), my educated guess is that your Amethyst Temple in the pic above is virused. Remember how Moby and Mags were talking about patterned discoloring versus unpatterned. Patterned is usually due to other causes, unpatterned and blotchiness is often due to virus. That pic looks quite typical for virus infection.

If it still looks like that now (3 weeks later), I would remove it for good.

Be sure to clean your garden tools that came in contact with the sap. And you too!

Rick

I am going to make an attempt, at posting the yellow surprise, in the drainage ditch. I will be moving this little beauty. Mike

I don't know why I don't get surprises like that in my drainage ditch.

Got them dug out..Leftwood....But I don't understand i've had those lilies for years...
and can't understand how they would get sick and nothing else...
The ones on the other end of the bed are fine so I didn't lose them all....
I keep all the Tigers in their own beds far away..Do have some Black Beauties in the bed though..
But it's mainly a mix of Asiatics..Orientals.....LA's....OT's..and Trumpets...I did add a Lily Of Nepal last fall

Some lilies are very tolerant of viruses. Most breeders select for that quality as one of their intended aims. Thus varying degrees of virus susceptibility/tolerance among lilies are inevitable. Merely because you have had a certain lily for years unscathed has little bearing on whether the lily is immune to everything.

I'm sure you've noticed how some lilies are more vigorous, or disease prone, or more insect prone than others? That is how some get "sick" while others don't. It's in their genetics. It is analogous to some human races being more susceptible to diabetes - it's in their genetics. When someone in you family gets sick, does everyone always get sick too, and at the same time and severity? Gosh, that would be a scary world.

Keeping your tiger lilies in a bed far away is good, but nothing is absolute. An aphid caring a virus can be blown around in a storm, for instance, coming from a mile away and land on your lily. Likewise you, a dog, whatever can become an unwilling carrier of virus or virus carrying insects from one flower bed to another. Not a usual circumstance, but it can and does happen, and in myriads of ways.

Working at a retail garden center, I often talk about bugs on plants with customers. Often I get asked "but where did they come from?" It's such a silly question. Apparently a lot of people seem to think their yards have an bubble impervious to all things bad surrounding each of them. NOT!!

Rick

Are you saying that our Force Fields are faulty? LOL

So now I will blame the deer for being the vector for disease transmission....or at least one of them! I always thought that was the case, munching the neighbors Rembrandt Tulips and then my lilies.

We used to have a thriving cut flower business (before we moved here to expand it and lost it) next to an abandoned railroad right of way. It went to weeds and my killer cat used to hunt there all the time, and bring the mice home to play with them. Then we noticed she was covered in aphids from hunting out there, and loved to drop the mice into the lily beds to play with them. Needless to say we had to maintain the abandoned strip and not only mow it but spray it too. So yes, virus vectors can have vectors of their own!

Just found these blooming
---- and this one

Pretty daylilies, Doris! I think mine are gone Everything came and went so early this year.