Dinnerpl8... wondering about the Ostrich Ferns ? and Peonies? Reviewing my trade list : Lots of garlic starts ( named variety but not sure from which variety LOL ! ) Korean Purple Garlic (gone ) Leningrad Garlic 2 pots African Daisy orange bloom 3 small pots medium purple Mums Yvonne's Salvia (supposed to grow to 5 feet tall????) Kiss me over the Garden Gate *( just starting to germinate and show their heads) All Star lilium ( small bulbs ,,,) Iris - intermediate deep purple Virginia bluebells Double yellow Daffodils 2 small pots of mini yellow daffodils 2 pots of White with peach color trumpets daffodils Husky Red Tomatoes(great flavor)and don't seem to succumb to regular tomato diseases Feverfew single bloom lemony green foliage not as prolific as the double . Chamomile Haskap starts (this is tentative..... waiting for germination in greenhouse if we ever see the sun this year ) Crocosmia ( same deal as Haskap) Hige Shakori flaked Morning Glory Goji Berry Pennyroyal Nettle Chocolate Mint Plumeria Purple Monarda Creeping Buttercup Grape Tomatoes ( small plants ) Red Pixie Lily August Crocus Daylily Ruby Stella Saskatoon Berry bushes New: Hope Grey Squash ( rare to find) Lemon Balm Regular double Feverfew Dame's Rocket yellow zucchini ( 2) Blue Pumpkin (2) not sure if it will come true as I got seeds in a trade here on gardenweb but if true should be quite interesting Northern Catalpa tree starts ( seedlings) (2) Echinacea daylily Bonanza more new : Mauve Lilac 3 ft tall with blooms True Tiger lilies - maybe orange or yellow Daylily - Night Beacon - Bitsy - Pink Damask Ladybells (can be invasive if not deadheaded when seed pods present) Lily of the Valley Hosta - Golden Tiara - Lancefolia - Aurea varigata Primula - bright pink with yellow/orange centers Thanks Signet

When it comes to plants I'll never say never. I purchased a few "Pixies" from Home Depot when they first showed up five or six years ago and none of mine have ever gotten taller than 12 - 18". They expand into nice clumps, but no great height. In reading on Google, I did see that some growers do use growth retardants but mainly on bedding plants. Hard to think it would be effective with a bulb. And I'm 3 hardiness zones and a totally different climate away from you so any plant we might have in common could manifest itself differently. This post was edited by duluthinbloomz4 on Tue, Jun 3, 14 at 17:20

Well I happened upon this website & thread because I had a conversation with a fellow gardener today about her lilies and now many of my lilies "reverting", and the most common colour they seem to become is orange. I have HUGE clumps of lilies, and loads are orange and I don't remember planting that many orange ones, so I kinda wondered if some didn't revert from something else, but now I KNOW they have, because I had one huge clump that were called Kaveri I had bought a few years ago. Kaveri is yellow with red in the centre of each petal. They were so huge & thick last year that I thought I would probably have to divide them this year.... and I was going to dig out some of the other clumps that are orange to plant the Kaveri lilies. Well, my Kaveri lilies all started opening yesterday ... and they are ALL orange. There is no way that I made a mistake or that little bulblets from other lilies could have gotten in there, they were a separate & distinct clump. I am honestly so upset I can hardly see straight. I have another few clumps of lilies that are pink with freckles -- which I now know were LA or OT lilies in various colours, but the blooms are all pink and MUCH smaller than they used to be, so they have also "reverted". My friend had ivory coloured white double-petalled lilies, and they are all now single orange ones (and she doesn't like orange, so she knows she never bought them,a nd her neighbourhood is new, there were no other gardens there before) Do reverted lilies ever come back to their proper state? Does anyoe know the cause? I'm wondering if maybe the parent they use to hybridize is a drought-tolerant Asiatic, because it's been incredibly dry here, and maybe it figures it needs to revert to save itself? I don't know, but I am so upset. I'm hoping that the other Kaveri clumps don't revert! This shows what Kaveri is supposed to look like https://www.longfield-gardens.com/plantname/Lily-Kaveri

I have had the same thing happen to new bulbs before. I have always blamed it on my tendancy to buy discounted bulbs late in the season, because the ones I buy very early seem to grow fine. When did you get these? I always think fall planted lilies seem to do best. I think these will come out next year & be fine, you may still get flowers this year. I usually do, but late. Were the bulbs smallish? Did you add bone meal to the soil before planting? If something is eating the leaves, you might try spraying the foliage if you are okay with bug sprays :) Unless the plant itself looks bad, I wouldn't dig it up. I have no real problem growing lilies, but sometimes it takes them a while to settle in.