The first ones that I noticed were orientals in the front bed, there were 4 out of aprox.30 bulbs that were newly placed this spring. I started looking for others and that is when I saw that some Asiatics had the same coloration starting. The majority of the ones hit clear throughout all beds were the newly planted this spring.
Some of these plants appeared to me that they would not make it to bloom, they were growing well before the leaves turned purple, but that seemed to stunt their growth further in the process, however the ones that it affected of my older bed it caught just as they were getting ready to bloom. Blooms for those were on the small side, there was Starlette and one of my no id whites. Earlier on I did not notice anything different from many of these due to them growing normal... but as bloom season progressed and other plants flourished of the same variety some started getting these purple leaves and headed in the opposite direction fast. Whatever it was didn't seem to mind if it was an Oriental, Asiatic, Trumpet, LA or OT. There was a plant popping up in what seemed to be just about every bunch. While the others looked gorgeous, you could tell something wasn't going right for the other ones.
There are roughly 1300 lilies scattered out there in the yard.. about 60 different varieties. I hand water everything except for the veggie gardens. We have well water which is cool and I've always water'd in the evenings down low to the ground (those longer hand wands are wonderful) about every couple days, if there's been no rain.
When I decided to dig them up, the bulbs looked normal, no rot.. no bugs and I did not notice anything odd.
Nope I totally agree, the more minds that pull together, the better off we all are!
