Hi everyone,
I have a few Silk Road lilies and I love them. This year they grew to about 7 feet tall and gave me lots of very beautiful flowers. Of course, I left the stalks up to nourish the bulbs, and had plans to dig them up and redistribute them once the stalks had yellowed because they were multiplying and looked overcrowded.
About two weeks ago, we had a bad storm and most of the stalks were bent to the point of almost breaking. Thinking they might still be able to send nourishment to their bulbs, I staked them straight and prayed. Over the coming days, the stalks turned black and looked pretty much dead. So I thought, well, time to dig them up.
Today, I dug up two of them, which were really four this last spring. I planned on dividing them into four bulbs and replanting them ASAP. But when I dug them up, I found something I have never seen (I'm new to lilies). I found that the stalks have roots, and the bulbs are HUGE and feel bound together! I'm afraid to break them apart and don't really know how to do it, and I don't know if I need to leave the stalks and their roots in the bulbs, or ????? What should I do? And how should I do it?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have a lot of other bulbs and need to plant them all soon so the sooner I can deal with the lilies, the better. I really hope I'm not killing them.
This one is upside down--the stalks with their roots are on the bottom of the picture.
