Last Years Garden Lilies -When will they re-appear?

Hi guys and gals,

I'm a newbie on these forums, and to be honest - quite new to gardening. I have always lived in homes without any gardening space, but 18 months ago we moved to a house with GARDENS! Hooray!

Anyways, its a slow job getting it JUST RIGHT, but im curious to find out when I can expect to see my Lillies (bought and planted out last year) re-appearing? They are allegedly Spring flowering, but all my other spring bulbs have already started to appear, yet, no sign of the Lillies? Please advise if they are normally slower than others, or perhaps they will just not re-appear at all?

Here is the label that came with one set of them, just so as you know EXACTLY what I bought. The bulbs looked large and healthy when i planted them out!

Thanks everyone for your help! :gnthb:

 

Hello Cm Ross and welcome to the forum.
Your profile doesn't show where you are in the country so I don't know what your weather is like.
It has been a very long , cold winter and everything is a little late. My lilies haven't appeared yet either but I am confident that they will. I expect yours to be along some time soon too.
Your lily card just says "white" so don't know what kind they are but it's not usual for lilies to flower in spring. Mine are at their best in July so plenty of time yet.
Hope you get a good display.

 

Hi Alice, thanks for your warm welcome to Gardeners Corner! I have updated my profile, so everyone can see that im in LEEDS! Hehe!

Yes, you are right, the winter was VERY long and VERY cold, I'm sure my poor rabbits would second that!

The lillies I bought were indeed white, although I bought various other colours too, orange, red, pink and yellow too. There were 3 plants in each pot, and I split the bulbs up and mixed them all up in a fairly small plot in my (rather exposed) front garden and in fact last year they looked fantastic.

As you said, plenty of time left and lets hope we ALL get a good display from our flowers!

Anyways, I'll just have to learn the virtue of patience! I'm the type of person that wants things to happen NOW! Shame thats not the case with gardening!

Anyways, when the show up, i'll post on this thread again, and maybe we will all begin seeing some action from our lillies - in the meantime i will have to keep myself busy with landscaping my back garden! Im thinking of starting a new thread off, seeing if I cant get some nice ideas about the best way to do it. Im not shy of manual labour!

Thanks again!