I've one - in the ditch - that CAN rebloom if the county lets it grow. Since they are mowing today, I doubt I will see it this year. After all, the reblooming gene that is so prized in the garden daylilies came from somewhere!

Thx Nancy! I was just browsing them too trying to speed up spring! Photobucket seems to have the malware problem under control. I've been to my album several times with no pop up warnings. Last year was a growing experience for me with a few new problems with lilies. One problem was starvation. One of my lilies became quite lime green at the top of the stalk ( before flowering). Darm( a lily breeder) told me it was a nutritional deficiency and to add Epsom salt ( magnesium) to the soil. This did straighten it out, but it aborted its blooms. He advised me to dig it up and move it later in the season. Which I did. He said it might be atop a rock under there that was keeping its deep roots from finding adequate nutrition. The lime green was a signal of starvation. I know Linda Chaulker-Scott( blog) does not recommend random use of Epsom salt. In this case it was helpful. I used 1/4 cup. Another problem = learning experience was getting a lily disease called botrytis. I think I brought it home on a lily from a master gardener sale. It looks like brown specks on the leaves, in time it makes the whole plant turn brown before fall! Last year it affected many of my lilies. I didn't know what it was, so I wasn't concerned. I think you should look it up. It is a fungus and very common in lily. If you want to grow lily you'll want to address this ASAP. Anyway... I have a 10 # bag of baking soda which Darm advised I cover my soil with early spring. He says the fungus will live in the soil over winter and splash up or grow up on next years lily sprouts, starting a new fungus infection with them. Baking soda kills the fungus first I guess. I was also advised to spray the plants that are affected but we get rain almost daily. I just don't think that's gonna work for me. Maybe you've had these problems. I hope you can tell me the botrytis thing is quite fixable. It'd be a real downer for me otherwise.

Christine - I've worked hard to get rid of my ditch lilies as many as possible because they don't add much to my limited garden space. My neighbors planted some along the fenceline and I tend to rip them out as soon as I see them so they don't take over on my side. You were one of the first GW people I met in person and you were so kind to pass along some of your garden bounty but I'll let some other person take your ditch lilies! Happy Spring, Ann

Woohoo - looks like my Pineapple Lily is going to bloom again after all this time! I've had it in a larger pot since my original post here, as that was one recommendation the Bulb Forum had. I planted the bulbs 6 inches down and have left them in that pot since (bringing the pot inside over winter, and taking it back out in the late spring). I had just about given up hope, but when I checked the pot just now, I saw the beginnings of a flower forming in one of them :)