Hi, It's not abnormal since we had such a warm winter and everything is sprouting/blooming early. I hope you planted the bulbs 8 inches deep. The other bulbs will soon catch up and bloom-hopefully on schedule! If not you'll just have early blooms : ) Jen

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, well I am baffled then....lol...I dont think I have a drainage problem there. No clay at all, rich black soil that everything in that bed grows great in. Its so weird they come up looking great and fully bud up. Then when it starts to get hot out they start to get yellow stripes in their leaves and all the buds fall off before blooming. Followed by the entire plant burning out. It just makes no sense to me?? Could there be something else wrong in the soil?? Do Oriental Lilies ever get any kind of diseases that the soil could be locally contaminated by?? Maybe the first one I planted there was sick from the grower and gets to the new ones I plant there by the following year?

Looks like iron chlorosis. Here is an older posting that talks about it. Have you had unusually wet weather and is you soil quite clayey? Try googling iron chlorosis, you'll get lots of information on what to do about it. I have been fortunate to not have had this problem yet. With the excess of rain we have endured, I've got botyris on a few lilies instead. Flora Here is a link that might be useful: Yellowing asiatic liliy leaves

just put the pots in a protected place like shed or garage keep them just damp